My 14 year old was what some would call a strong-willed child when she was a little bitty. We read the books, we did the Growing Kids God's Way classes, we did it all, and guess what? She is still strong willed. None of it changed her, but it did change us! When she was around 3 or 4 I decided ...

  I have some Matcha Green Tea that I bought awhile back to add to my smoothies in the morning because I heard it was good for you. Good intentions but it does me no good unopened because just about the time I bought it I got sick of drinking smoothies every morning and I quit drinking them. I ...

I heard this the other day in a conversation, "I have boundaries!" and thought to myself, "Nope that's not a boundary!" So I thought we could all use a little refresher. Personal boundaries are guidelines, rules or limits that a person constructs to decide for oneself what ...

I was visiting with a friend this morning as she held her discontent five month old in her arms. He was so tired and needed to sleep.  He wanted to nurse, but then didn't want to nurse. He wanted to be held facing her then wanted to be held facing out. He wanted to close his eyes but fought to ...

"Every morning I wake up and tell my brain the truth about who I am so I can live from my heart and not my head." These are the wise words from a very precious friend of mine. I am so lucky to have her in my life to glean from and have her share her wisdom with me.

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