“You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you’re sad, love what you’ve got and remember what you had. Always forgive but never forget, learn from your mistakes but never regret, people change, things go wrong, just remember life goes on…” Tonight as I was FaceTiming with each of my kids I […]
You wake every morning miserable because you can’t stand the thought of going to the office to do a job you hate. You moan and groan so much about the job you hate that not only are you miserable, but everyone around you is as well. You get through each day of misery only to […]
Today was brutal. Today I moved my baby girl down to her college dorm and tonight is the first night of her being gone from home. Even though I will get to go see her tomorrow for the Orientation meetings on campus, it doesn’t change the fact that after today things will never quite be […]
Many of us grew up with a security blanket. It typically started as an actual blanket for most of us when we were small children, one we couldn’t go to bed without. Then as we grow older our parents and our home become our security blanket, the place we felt safe and secure. And then […]
Today was an amazing day – we had planned to take our kids out to the Lake to go boating with their friends, everyone got their swimming suits on and we packed the boat with snacks and we drove 45 minutes to the lake and got the boat on the water only to have our […]
Today I heard a story about a woman who went through an experience that taught her a great life lesson about perspective. I will try and relay the story the best I can remember it (since I wasn’t taking notes when I heard it). This woman was driving to the grocery store in her car […]
As a young man, Dr. Seuss was bullied over race and religion. As an adult Dr. Seuss wanted to write a book that would send a message to children (and anyone else who read it) that all of us are equal. The book he wrote is called The Sneetches. The book Sneetches is about the […]
Loving someone can be scary. Scary because if you don’t love at all then in theory you will never get hurt. How can you be hurt if you didn’t care to begin with? And so some people take on the mindset that they are better off alone then to put their heart out there and […]
Sometimes in life you are faced with a choice between two things that both matter to you. Today I had that experience. I will give you some background that will help explain the situation: My entire life since I was old enough to have a workers permit (which I think was 14 years old) I […]
Today I am going to share a very impactful analogy that a counselor once shared with me. It was an analogy that literally changed my life and I hope that it can help some of you that might be facing challenges in breaking bad habits that are holding you back from finding real happiness, so […]
“Before you “assume”, try this crazy method called asking.” Wow….that is a powerful quote. When I first read it, it really hit me. It is so true! So often in life we just assume we know…we assume we know what someone thinks, we assume they did something just because someone else said they did, we […]
“We Judge Ourselves by our Intentions Others Judge us based on our Behavior.” How true is that? I think many of us tend to justify our actions by what our intensions were. Even if in our hearts we know that our behavior was wrong. It is a trap that is easy to fall into. But […]
When my son Dalton was a little boy, for some reason he could not grow bangs. His hair would grow on top and on the sides and in the back, but not in the front. For the first few years of his life I kept him in little baseball caps to disguise the fact that […]
Growing up I wasn’t always the easiest teenager. I was stubborn, fiercely independent and ridiculously tenacious. I thought I knew everything. I thought I didn’t need anyone to watch out for me. And even though my parents were aware I didn’t want anyone watching out for me, every night I went out I would come […]
“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do […]
“I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stifled. I want all the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi I absolutely enjoy learning about other cultures. I love learning about different traditions people […]
I heard a news story today about someone who was been killed in a car accident. It made me stop and think a lot about how fragile life is. The person in that car woke up thinking that today would be a day like any other day, with absolutely no idea that today would be […]
“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.” -Buddha Words are such a powerful thing. Especially the words we speak. They can build up or tear down, hurt or heal, uplift or destroy. I personally believe that words, when unkind, […]
I want to start this week by paying a special tribute to all of the great dad’s out there. Like the title said, any man can be a father, but it truly does take a special person to be a dad. I have learned that lesson firsthand in my own life with my children – […]
“Once she stopped rushing through life, she was amazed how much more life she had time for.” Tonight was a good friend’s birthday so we had a small group over to celebrate. Nothing elaborate, just bbq, swimming in the pool, a lot of laughter, playing fun games, and of course dancing…in our family it isn’t […]
This week is going to be one of the biggest weeks of my life. And it will no doubt be a bittersweet week for our family. First, my 18 year old daughter Ashley is graduating from High School. Oh my goodness I am not ready to let that little girl go! My baby….my youngest….my mini […]
Do you ever look in the mirror and feel shocked to see a grown up staring back at you? Do you ever look in the mirror and realize that you can no longer pretend that you are still young, cool, and hip, and you are forced to face the fact that instead of being hip, […]
Back in 1999 a poem came out that I thought was cute, but not especially meaningful. Later they even made the poem into a song. As I read that same poem today I no longer find it just cute, I find it extremely meaningful and I can’t help but get choked up by it. Oh […]
Happy Mother’s Day! I had to get that out there very first thing because there is nothing more important today than stating appreciation for all the Mother’s and future Mother’s and single Father’s playing the role of Mother. THANK YOU! For loving us, inspiring us, putting up with us, taking care of us, fixing our […]
21 years ago today I lay in a hospital room giving birth to a 9 pound 7 ounce beautiful baby boy. It was my very first child. I was only 21 years myself when I gave birth that day, and now today, 21 years later, it is my son’s 21st birthday. Crazy. I remember the […]
We did it! We actually spent our very first night in our new house. We are still surrounded by boxes and papers to unpack and put away, and there is still a punch list of “to be finished or fixed items”, but we have officially begun living in our new house. So I have to […]
Today was straight up exhausting. We moved for 13 straight hours without taking even a five minute break. It was nuts! And the sad part is that we barely made a dent in all that needs to be moved still. I have to remind myself every day that the mountains of stuff we still need […]
Being kind is a scientifically proven way to improve your spirits – kindness is a natural antidepressant. So if you want to feel instantly better about yourself and change any negative feelings to positive ones, all you need to do is be kind to another human being. In a scientific study they found that when […]
“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service […]
There are a lot of differences between men and women – it is those differences that make us fall in love with each other and it is those same differences that often cause us to drive each other crazy sometimes. Even when both people in a relationship are good people, relationships are still going to […]
