Hold on to your mustard seed
We’re in a new phase of parenting in our house. I hear so many different renditions of what it’s like to raise teens that I’ m not sure...
Maybe You're Not Ready Yet
Six months after I launched my advertising agency a local business owner offered me a job in sales and bookkeeping in his flooring...
Electronic Safe Guards Every Parent Needs to Know
The trending question among parents of tweens is how old kids should be to get their own phone. Our family chose to add a cell phone line...
My Goals Aren't Your Goals But We'll Both Be Okay
My mom always made grill cheese sandwiches in a toaster oven. We didn’t have a toaster oven when I married and moved out so I made grill...
The Life Lessons I Learned When I Change My Name in First Grade
I was five years old in Miss Judy’s kindergarten when I saw my full name written out for the first time. Hilary Blake Palmer. Written in...
For the Mom Who is Taken For Granted (And the One Who Wishes She Was)
My son had his winter band concert last week. The night before he asked who was coming. I told him I’d be there. “But you’re always...
Not If I Save You First Great Choice for Holiday Reading
I dedicated the bulk of October to researching and outlining the next manuscript I planned to write. I’ve never been much of a “plotter”...
When the Mess Comes First
For the first time since April, cool weather descended on North Mississippi last week. Which means all our kids are either wearing pants...
I'm sorry I can't talk right now
I slogged to the kitchen five minutes after clicking off my alarm. Anxiousness gnawed my gut like an over achieving woodpecker. My...
What happened when we restricted electronics for nine weeks
Short story: we survived. Sorry for the click baity headline. We more than survived. My kid raised his grades, took an interest in two...
