love

Something goes wrong (or at least not the way you planned) and your mind can so quickly and so easily go to questions like: Why does this have to happen to me? Why do I have to suffer this right [...]

It was two weeks before Christmas when my son decided to walk out of our front door with no intention of returning.  I knew I had every reason in the world to be hurt, angry, disappointed, [...]

My husband and I recently went “home” to visit my parents.  One morning we woke up and went into town to run/walk around the high school track so we could get our 2-3 miles in for the [...]

What would I do differently if I knew nobody would judge me?  An interesting question.  A question I pondered for a while before I was ready to be honest with myself. It [...]

When we hear the word LOVE we often envision hearts and warm embraces, but we know it’s so much more than that.  As moms, love can look like cleaning up vomit; playing Pokémon because your [...]

When my son first told me he wasn’t going to serve a mission, of course my mind filled with doubt and fear.  Doubt about my parenting.  Fear about our relationship (not because I [...]

Like a lot of other LDS families, our drive home after church usually consists of me asking everyone else what they learned.  Oftentimes the answers from my kids is short and sweet, and [...]