Vanessa

From the moment I laid eyes on each of my children, I was hopelessly in love. Like most parents, I wondered where this life would take them and what they would turn out like; more specifically, who they would be?  It seemed they each had a distinct personality right from Continue Reading

BE KIND TO YOURSELF Just as there are endless possibilities to achieve goals, it is quite often that we stumble along the journey. This is normal. I believe these little missteps are important to keep us humble, but also teach us to become stronger. So, don’t beat yourself up about Continue Reading

In my early twenties, as a young mother, I thought I knew everything and I had strong opinions about other people doing things the “wrong” way. My vast knowledge came from reading self-help books and taking a couple of psychology classes at a community college. I’ll also throw my religion Continue Reading

  Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. — Sophia Loren This could easily be the longest segment in my life. In fact, the shortest would be all the things I might have done right, and even those things are in question.  In fact, we Continue Reading

Cam was 12 years old and said, “hey mom, you gotta sec?” Sabrina, who was about 6, said, “of course she does, mom has lots of secs.” If only that were true…but time is fleeting, fickle even. Who really knows how much of it we have? I remember being about Continue Reading

When we are in the throes of the hardest situations, it is challenging to see a way through. Some obstacles seem insurmountable, but I truly believe there is a light at the end of every dark tunnel. The real challenge is finding it. Again, we have no control of all Continue Reading

One of the rituals at our house has been the way we say goodbye when someone is leaving. We always say “goodbye” and “I love you” but I have always said, “remember who you are!” At first, my children thought this was a bit of a joke, as if I Continue Reading

Life happens. Shit happens. Good things and bad things happen in this world and we don’t have control over most of them. It can feel overwhelming. As children, we have no control over most of what happens to us. Parents choose. They decide for us what to wear, what to Continue Reading

Abby was between 2 and 3 years old and had gone outside with Sabrina for the first snowfall of the year. Sabrina was recording on her phone the snow falling all around in the darkness and then you hear Abby’s little voice gasp with excitement, “the SNOWFLAKES are SNOW!”  She Continue Reading