14 Jan, 2017

Co-parenting is something you never set out to accomplish in your life but sometimes things go awry and your life takes this detour that is one of the hardest things any person can do.  Now, some of you may laugh and say "how hard could this parenting thing be?". I am here to say that through everything that I have been through in my life, co-parenting is one of the hardest things a person can do in their lifetime.  Hopefully, most of us are lucky enough to not have to take this course but if

05 Oct, 2016

The ideas you have as a mom when you are younger are what you see from the outside.  Never in my life did I imagine how complicated it is to be a "real" mom.  Starting with the schedules, being a mom of one young child was still pretty simple comparatively speaking.  You have daycare and school and most evenings you have time to make a healthy meal while teaching your own child about life.  Then you become a mom of several kids that are in different stages of school and involved in different

02 Oct, 2016

The ideal life we all began thinking about as young girls is different for every person.  When I was young I always dreamed I would have a great job, have the perfect wedding, with a great husband and 2 beautiful children that acted like the perfect kids with no issues and acted exactly how I told them to and everyone thought they were the "perfect" kids.  I would live in a big house with nice cars and money worries were not in my mindset. Now, we all know these are dreams of a child and nothing