COLLEGE & CAREER

I started this blog to share thoughts on small-town life, faith-based parenting, and other essential things.

My posts are featured weekly in two Louisiana newspapers:

The Enterprise & Interstate Progress--Mansfield and The Coushatta Citizen--Coushatta.

I'm so glad you've stopped by! Please take time to comment and let me know how you're doing.

HOLDING MY KIDS ACCOUNTABLE

My boys earned their Eagle Scout rank in the Boy Scouts of America-one in 2014 and one in 2017. This was before girls were let into...

INSIDE THE INSIDE JOKES

Family stories are the lifeblood of our get togethers. When the conversation lags, someone will say, “Do you remember the time…..” We...

THE GREAT CAREER ADVENTURE

So I did this (apparently) weird thing. When each of my kids turned fifteen, I took them on The Great Career Adventure. Okay, it’s a...

WHEN THE KIDS KNOW BETTER

I spent twenty years of my life holding my children accountable, responsible, and making them upstanding citizens. Now at ages twenty...

PARENTING IS LIKE LAUNDRY….AND THE MILITARY….AND SUPER HEROES

Even though there are just two of us at home now, I feel like my laundry basket is never empty. It seems just as I fold a load of...

NEED VERSUS WANT

I have always tried to teach my kids to be independent, to think for themselves. I want them to be leaders and not followers. I want...

THE SIXTH TIME I LOST MY CHILD

My youngest child Cameron was born in 2000 and I lost him five times by the time he was seven years old. I feel like I should say that...

CAPTURING TIME IN A BOOK

When my kids were little I made a gazillion scrapbooks of them. Okay, I’m not solid on the exact number of albums, but it was a lot. ...

YOU'RE IN THE ARMY NOW MOM!

In 2006 my boys and I were standing in a terminal at Dallas Fort Worth Airport waiting on an airplane. The passengers were strangers to...

MEETING THE GF

I remember introducing my boyfriends to my parents as no big deal. I remember meeting the boyfriend’s parents and being a little nervous...