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When I lived in Rhode Island our family rented an amazing house from the nicest couple, Scott and Lynn, we have ever had as landlords. After a rocky start to house hunting there, we were blessed with a huge house that was next to a lake, that had a pool, and that was even on …
A few weeks ago I watched Disney’s The Kid. Wow! Who knew a Disney movie could change my life! I haven’t seen this movie since it first came out over twenty years ago. When I first saw it I remember thinking it was a cute movie and nothing more. This time it was a completely …
This new year has already made history! Before the new year began I kept reading how people were hoping for a better 2021 and ready to get rid of 2020. As I was contemplating what people were saying about 2020, I read a post by a man who talked about how he had endured way …
One of the most valuable tools we can teach as parents is how to help children manage scary thoughts. As a child I was terrified of fire. Just ask my parents! My mom said at about 18-months-old she put me in a play pen in front of our fire place (that had the doors closed) …
What a crazy past few months it’s been! I purposefully gave myself some compassion during these months of cancelled school, COVID-19, and my husband’s deployment. I packed up for about a month and headed to my home state of Montana to spend time with my parents and wait for time to pass. About a month …
I realized the other day that being a military spouse of 18 years has prepared me to know how to deal with being quarantined in the house with my seven kids. Now I get to do both deployment and quarantine! Sweet! Part of military life is never knowing what is going to happen. You wait …
My mom says that my children, when they are toddlers, are more challenging than others. I have no idea since I’m not raising anyone else’s children, however, I’ve taken to telling myself “This too shall pass” as I am now raising two three-year-olds, plus 3 teenagers and two elementary age children. The older 5 are …
Last summer I posted a little bit about my husband being deployed. I thought I had deployments down back then! I was totally wrong! It looks like I needed a little bit more growth in the deployment area because my husband deployed again right before this virus started going crazy in the US. So here …
This week I had one of the strangest experiences of my life. This particular day I had a phone call scheduled with a friend at 6:45 pm. This phone call was pretty important and I did not want to miss it. Unfortunately due to the chaos associated with COVID-19 I was still at the store …
Here are a few real circumstances that have a occurred to me, friends, or relatives that have brought to the surface many thoughts and emotions that have been difficult to overcome: I have a client who was yelled at and sent angry texts by a neighbor because the neighbor thought my friend had invaded their …
