Give to the Max Day 2019
Give to The Max Day is a day set aside to give to a specific cause near and dear to your heart or to find a new cause you want...
Passing Kindness Through Generations
by Amber Harder
My grandma was one of those people who I think would be best described as small but mighty. Not mighty in an overbearing way, but driven and persistent and determined...
Love Thyself
The other night after our bedtime thanksgiving my oldest son asked, “Mom, do you love me?” My response was exactly as he expected and had heard a million times before,...
Are Dental X-Rays Really That Important?
If you could have any super power, what would it be? A Marist Poll of United States residents conducted in 2010 revealed the ability to read people’s minds and...
My Season Opener
The leaves crunch beneath my feet as I navigate the trail with my headlamp. A flash of bright pink on a small tree gives me my bearings. There is only...
The Life-Changing Magic of Showering
Bathing is something we think about surprisingly often as mothers. Sponging kids down after each diaper explosion, spaghetti dinner, and marker incident. Wondering if playing in the pool for five...
Caring Beyond The Classroom
While many of us teach our children to use “please” and “thank you” before they can even talk, it takes time and effort for true appreciation and gratitude to...
Tell the Scary Stories Too
“Mommy, tell me a story.” It’s the latest bedtime stall tactic in our house. My body wants to say no, wants to claw my way out of this room, away...
A Bittersweet End to the Tooth Fairy
There comes a time in each child’s life when they learn the hard facts about Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and the myriad of other white lies and...
A Kind Heart
According to Elizabeth Stone, parenting is “to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” Like most moms, I’m probably a bit overprotective. I want my...
Forced to Figure It Out
by Amy Workman
My husband’s vacation time was up and he returned to work when our daughter was three weeks old. I could see no feasible way to do anything besides take care...
Martial Arts and Motherhood
When you tell people you’re a black belt there are some pretty standard response you get: how long have you been doing it? What kind of martial arts do you do?...