This month of celebrating fathers is bittersweet for me. I am caught between celebrating my husband and missing my father terribly.
As the years pass,...
I love a clean house, but I hate cleaning. I love an empty dishwasher, but I hate unloading it. I love folded laundry, but...
Marriage, with or without kids, is still marriage. It has highs and lows. It has ups and downs. Marriage will throw EVERYTHING at you...
Twelve years of age is the first year I found myself with a new boy or in strong like with someone. Twelve years old!...
My husband and I celebrated our ninth anniversary this past week. It's not really one people talk about, and ours fell smack dab between...
I am a stay-at-home mom, and I'm not ashamed to say that I love it. I don’t miss working. I don’t miss answering to...
I'm 6 weeks postpartum, have 3 under 3, and chasing and carrying all these little micro versions of my husband and I is EXHAUSTING....
Sunday mornings at the Beaven House are chaotic! Not a typical chaos, but one that literally makes you want to get back into bed...
It was a crisp, fall afternoon, my dad and I were walking our usual route around the neighborhood when I asked him why we...
I do not have a rule book or playbook on being alone. All I can say is that for the majority of the last...
This wasn't supposed to be my story. A failing marriage was never supposed to be an option and was not supposed to be my...
We are facing a new frontier in this era of parenting. As women in the post #Metoo movement, we are trying to raise our...
Today is our 13th wedding anniversary and we both almost forgot! Last week leading up to our anniversary was crazy for us—it’s my husband’s...
My family and I were vacationing at Gulf Shore a couple of years ago. We love it down there and decided to stay 9...

























