claim your light
We can't be perfect parents, but we can parent with purpose. Read on to discover ways to make your parenting more intentional, meaningful, and focused on the values you want to instill in your kids.
Before I was a mother, I was a marketing developer. That’s a fancy way of saying I got to write for a living. (Yay!) I loved it. Every weekday (except holidays) I spent hours and hours poring over my research, writing and rewriting, and occasionally answering a phone call or two. Flash forward eight years–to right now. I’ve only been writing… Read More
Every few months something sends a shock through our household that throws us into survival mode. It can be something as huge and long-term as a grueling pregnancy, or as small and short term as a few days with the flu. Either way–it’s stressful, challenging, and discouraging. But you know what else it is? Normal. Survival mode is a normal… Read More
I think it is pretty safe to say that getting a kid to put his shoes on is one of the universal struggles of parenthood. I’m not talking about learning to put shoes on. No. It makes sense that learning how to wrangle your tiny foot into a tiny shoe for the first time might be challenging. I’m not even… Read More
My kids love each other. They do. But last summer I thought I might lose my mind. Day after day, hour after hour, for the first few weeks I was called in to referee. There were sharing tug-of-wars. There was yelling, fighting, tussling, and even some hair-pulling. There was “That’s not fair!” “I’m having it!” and lots and lots of “I’m telling… Read More
