Welcome to 2012, friends!

I know there are plenty of New Year’s promotions out there promising to  whittle those 10 last pounds away, get rid of your spider veins or laser off that unsightly hair.  Forget those.

What do you…

While speaking at a large conference in Michigan, my friend Jill, the session’s lecturer, was discussing how women frequently perceive themselves. While she wasn’t specifically addressing mothers, her point was applicable to us.

At one point in her lecture, she…

One of my 10 Habits of Happy Mothers is to maintain key friendships.  It’s hard for us moms to find spare time, especially this time of year, to spend with our friends, so I thought a brief refresher on…

Revisiting a chapter in 10 Habits of Happy Mothers today (Habit #5: Create a Healthy Relationship with Money).

I thought this one was particularly timely, given that most of us are out in the malls shopping for presents for…

Here’s a hard lesson to learn: contentment will never come if we continually look
outward at the next thing we want to get. Read that again.  Contentment will never come if we continually look outward at the next thing…

The only difference between us grown ups and our children is that they are allowed to express their needs because they are still young. But just because we grow older doesn’t mean that our needs diminish. They simply morph into…

At age fifty-two, I often feel hopeless about being able to get back into shape. I used to love to run. For thirty years, I ran because it altered my mood and lightened the dysthmia that snaked its way into…

I thought I’d share a video to round out my blog series on The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers. Here is a very brief segment about HOPE and why I feel that it’s so very, very important.

Excerpt:

Many…

We introduce Habit #10 in The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers on the blog today. I’ve been briefly touching on each habit, chapter by chapter here on my blog over the last few months. I hope you’ve been following…

We talked a little bit a couple weeks ago about how destructive worrying can be for us Moms.  (You can reference Chapter 9 in The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers to read…