• Motherhood

    3 Tips to Teach Your child How to Read

    Learning to read at an early age is critical for a child’s growth. It allows children to get a better understanding of their surroundings, collect knowledge from printed sources, and provide a tremendous source of amusement when they read stories and rhymes. Children develop at different rates, and some gain reading abilities easier than others. What matters is that you,…

  • Life,  Motherhood

    2 Years CANCER FREE!

    Many moments occur in life, that we simply never forget. The kind of moments that hold a certain significance. That we are unable to free from our memory, no matter how hard we seem to try. I’ll never forget that day. After our official diagnosis was given, and our treatment regime was decided upon. Our hearts shattered, as our world…

  • Life,  Motherhood

    This is why I share.

    Before our children were born, Josh and I cut all ties with social media. It wasn’t until we packed up two Honda civics and moved our lives to Florida, that I decided to create myself an Instagram. At the time, Instagram was just becoming the new big “thing” in social media. I thought the photo-sharing app would be the perfect…

  • Life,  Motherhood

    Reality Hits

    This is hard for me – this post, these thoughts, this reality. Reality is something, most of us have struggled with, at one time or another. Struggling with our perception of reality vs. the truth of our reality. Wanting to believe that life around us, is unraveling just as our eyes see it. We tend to see or recognize only…

  • Family,  Life

    Hard Choices

    Just days after bringing in the new year, “it” happened – you know, life. The ever so unexpected, dreadful events of life. It’s that sort of something, I’m not quite ready to talk about. I mean I want to, and one day I plan to. Mainly because I believe this is something many people struggle with; or at least they…

  • Family,  Life

    Cheers to 2019!

    Determination, it is written all upon her little face. She is determined to succeed with the task at hand. Laser focused, on determining just how she will do so. I often look at my children in amazement, when I notice “that” look in their eyes. Are they going to fail? – Of course. Without failure, there would be no growth.…

  • Family,  Life,  Motherhood

    Faith over Fear

    If we are being honest, what parent ever thinks “their” child, could be diagnosed with cancer. Sure, at times we hear about someone we know, who knows someone, whose child is battling cancer. But never, could such a “thing” hit so close to home – until, it does. Cancer is undiscriminating – it holds no remorse. Cancer does not see…