Being The “Different Mom”
I sat poolside among a few other moms, our bare feet dangling in the water. The hot sun beat down on the pavement as we…
I sat poolside among a few other moms, our bare feet dangling in the water. The hot sun beat down on the pavement as we…
I’ve always had a heart geared toward people, and hospitality is one of my gifts. Believing I was exercising this gift, for years I read…
Exhausting, exhilarating, bonding, hysterical and oh yeah, did I mention exhausting?? Yes! We just had our annual “Yates Family Reunion.” We have 5 kids, all…
Someone sent me a great video clip from America’s Funniest Videos. I don’t know if it won, but I would’ve given it first place. It…
Okay. You have to read this note I got on my website. You know how I spend a lot of time helping women understand that…
“She always gets to go first. You never let me…” “He has this new Xbox game. Why won’t you get it for me?” “Everyone else…
I was talking with my husband the other day, and I told him we have been very blessed with the blending of our extended families….
When the MomLife team suggested we explore “respectable” sins we tolerate in ourselves, I wrote a 1400-word post in less than an hour. I had…
It’s not news: The reading habits of over 100 million have cannibalized the rest of the publishing world. EL James’s Fifty Shades of Grey has…
One month when our five children were all small, we had three cases of chicken pox, two ear infections, one case of bronchitis, and three…