Five years ago I took my children on the most beautiful trip to Mexico and we will never be the same. I had gone two...

I am Insecure

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I am insecure. Not all the time, and not in all situations, but insecurity is not a foreign concept to me. It's not something I like...
I look back at myself, age 35, married and pregnant, with a mixture of humor, compassion, and unabridged mocking. I was so arrogant, and...
When our little man Zayne was born we should have know better. We named him Zayne afterall. Within his first couple weeks he developed...
There are a lot of opinions out there about what is necessary for baby. I fall on the more minimal side of things but...
Okay, so, never in a million years did I ever think that I would be writing that having a second C-section would be a...
It was my first completely free weekend in a long time, and I had grand plans. I was going to go for a run...
When my now six year old was a mere 18 months old, she discovered a pair of red leather Venezualan leather Mary Janes in a...
This is the first of a 3 part series about Foster Care. April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month and it's followed in May...
The greatest gift I ever received was a journal, written by my father, documenting my life from the time I was conceived until I...
When I sat down to write this post it was suppose to go in a very different direction than it actually did.  I sat...
Tell me you've had it too. That moment when you open your mouth to say something, and your mother comes out. It's not a slow morphing...
Don't you want another one? Sometime around MJ's first birthday people starting asking us this. At that time we weren't ready, we'd had a rough...
The idea that I could dismiss someone was new to me, a foreign concept. I sat in my therapist’s office, drying my eyes, as she...

In + Around Vermont

The UVM Men’s Soccer National Championship Matters to Vermont Families

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Late into the evening on Monday, December 16, I lay in bed while my three kids were asleep, watching the Men’s National Collegiate Soccer...