Follow my blog with Bloglovin This is an on-going journal to my daughter for her to read later… and also for anyone else that may find it helpful. Here’s to raising daughters! A few weeks ago I shared a dream of mine with you. I told you how some day I’d love to pursue this [...]
Hey Friends! I’m over at Hannah’s place today sharing about a special tradition we have in our house… and how it all got started. Tell me, does your family have a specific holiday tradition? We’ve had some FAILS over the years when I tried to introduce new traditions. They make for funny stories now, but [...]
When my kids were younger we made a paper chain every year to countdown to Christmas. It was so exciting to see what each chain said… the activity we would get to do. The boys would not go for a paper chain these days, and I understand. Not only do paper chains not work with [...]
This is an on-going journal to my daughter for her to read later… and also for anyone else that may find it helpful. Here’s to raising daughters! I was allowed to start dating when I turned sixteen, but up until then I could go out with a boy as long as his parents were with [...]
Our words make things happen. They make people feel things. And our young girls are especially sensitive to our words. A girl’s confidence does not stem from another person’s critical words, but from encouragement. When you see a girl wearing a revealing outfit do you roll your eyes at her? Do you scowl or huff? [...]
My husband’s birthday is this week, and to celebrate my daughter wrote him a few poems. The poems are personal, so I won’t be sharing them here, but I do want to share one part. In one of them poem’s she mentioned growing up. And, as you can imagine, as a mother reading it overwhelmed [...]
It might not always be what YOU enjoy doing, but finding what your child likes to do and doing it WITH them is important. Teen thought it was so cool that his old boring mom would come out and shoot bb guns with him. And the next day when I had to discipline him for [...]
