What's an ambivert, you say? It's someone who can be both introverted and extroverted, when they want to be. But sometimes it's something that they can't control either. For when my wonderful, social butterfly husband needs to recharge, it's very...
When your child plays competitive sports, you spend a lot of time at the fields. My 11-year-old has soccer several nights a week, and one or two games on the weekend. We spend countless hours a week with our...
If you're a Jacksonville native, you may know the Mayport neighborhood as a shrimping community and military base nestled in the small beach town of Atlantic Beach. Only accessible by A1A, Mayport is considered West Atlantic Beach to the...
My husband and I had not been away together without children in about eight years. There were the years we had three kids in daycare, and no one was going anywhere with a childcare bill higher than our mortgage;...
Like most young girls growing up, I’ve always dreamt about my wedding day. I never cared too much about what my wedding would look like, but I knew I wanted to be married one day. I didn’t think my...
Many people have the misconception that "coming out" is a one-time conversation, and while those very first times you talk about it out loud are usually the hardest, having to "out" yourself to strangers daily can be just as...
It was not just one thing that broke us. Like the weakening of a home’s foundation, it was a collection of events, neglect, and eventually refusal.
We were just babies in 2000 when we met, ages 17 and 19 at...
I will start off by saying that I am writing this wife appreciation blog post from an interesting position. I both am and have a wife! And she is one incredible wife — the true definition of a partner....
I love my husband, he loves me, and we’ve been married for 11 years, with four kids, seven chickens, and a dog. I feel like we are more in love and happy now than we have ever been. So,...
We co-sleep with our kids. This is not something I often admit to others, even close friends or family. I have even gone to certain lengths to hide it when family has stayed over. It's a taboo topic and...
"A sweet friendship refreshes the soul." –Proverbs 27:9
I recently was invited on a milestone birthday weekend trip for a friend, where it ended up that all who joined didn’t really know each other — most of us had never...
One of the hardest parts, in my opinion, of being a parent is remembering to be a couple. More like finding and making the time to be a couple, really. It's so easy to get caught up in the...