Love + Relationships

  I work while my husband stays home with our kids. Recently, my husband needed to help out with his family's business. So I took the day off to stay home with the kids. It 100% never occurred to me that being...

  December is done, The New Year is jolly. We've hung up the tinsel, And packed up the holly. It's time to start fresh, That's what they say. But I truly believe,  That's a choice everyday. {anonymous} With the holidays behind us, many turn to the New Year as...

I was out to dinner with six ladies whose lives were intertwined with mine through church and community. Orders had been taken, sodas were being sipped, and menus had been handed to the server. We were settling in to conversations...

My husband has a rotation of daddy dates with each of our three children on Sundays at lunch. Each Sunday, he takes one on our children out to a restaurant (usually Braum's) where they share french fries and milkshakes...

Friend, I see you, heartbroken and feeling left empty. You put the work into your marriage, believed the best of your spouse, thought things were okay, and yet he ultimately left you and is with someone else. It's not fair. Some...

It was a quiet, tearful drive to the Dallas airport. I felt my husband driving slower, just trying to prolong the inevitable. In a few short hours, he would be boarding a flight back to Germany where he would...

Pretty much everything comes as an instant product these days. Instant jell-o, instant coffee, instant noodles, instant pain relief, instant messaging, instant video streaming, and instant pot...just to name a few. Let's not forget those "just add water" instant grow toys. You know the...

The little pink line. The little blue line. Nobody told us when we were little girls just how much a tiny splotch of dye in a tiny window on a "just peed on" stick would mean for the course of our...

When we went to that very first doctor’s appointment, you watched. When I fell asleep on the couch at 6 p.m. from first trimester fatigue, you watched. When I became frustrated with my clothes no longer fitting like they used to,...

The Beginning My husband and I fell in love in college. He pursued me for months before I finally agreed to go on a date with him. He was worried that my hesitation was due to his involvement in ROTC...

Ladies, let me tell you right now there are not just three stages in pregnancy, a.k.a. three trimesters. I think there are at least nine, and no one really talks about these stages. But these right here are the...

I have been a proud military wife for over five years. That's a short time compared to some, but in that time we've been through training, the 'real world' of active duty, more deployments than I care to count,...