A reminder this holiday season of what the perfect present really is.

A mother's responsibility is to work herself out of a job.  This article shows how I am learning to see my life as the means to help another life become what it needs to be...and on the way, I'll tell you how a goldfish and a tree taught me this lesson.

Motherhood involves a lot of stuff that ranges from boring to downright frustrating or disgusting.  But it also involves some amazingly beautiful stuff that makes all the hard stuff worthwhile.  While the hard moments may outnumber the wonderful ones, the wonderful ones outweigh the hard ones.  This article offers concrete ideas for creating and savoring the great moments.  

We all give ourselves reference points by which to make decisions.  This article tells how a jar of peanut butter helped me learn to make my mommy-ing choices based on reference points that never change.

I didn't realize how much I would grow as a mother, but as I reflect on my life now, I see that many of the lessons I have needed have been learned from my children.

Life is never perfect, but we do not need to wait for that day before we can be happy.   This article is a collection of thoughts that will hopefully encourage you to be happy...today.

We all want to live on streets with pleasant names.  These are my suggestions for giving more uplifting descriptions to the responsibilities associated with raising children.

What we are is more important than anything we can buy.  This article summarizes what I have learned about being happy during the holidays.

Our family tradition of identifying and sharing our "sweet" and our "sour" of each day has helped me to enjoy the fun moments and the crazy ones.  This article tells about how I learned to accept the challenges of being a mom.

Who would have ever guessed that I'd learn about mothering from a zucchini cake? The right perspective can make all the difference.