I've always heard you urging moms to be home with their children and raise them, but I never thought that was possible for me... More >>

I had been trying to figure out what in the world compelled me to act like so nasty to my husband of almost 19 years. I went into a different room, sat down, and really turned the tables... More >>

My husband used to have a small Cessna airplane, and he loved to fly it. He is a private pilot, but only as a hobby, and for several years, we kept that plane so we could 'hop' the distance between our town and the next big city when we wanted to go shopping... More >>

When my husband and I were dating and talking about marriage, I said that after we married and were looking to buy a house, we would base the home price off his income only and not ours combined. That way, when we had kids, I could quit my full-time job to stay home with them and we could still afford the mortgage... More >>

...After our third child was born, we fell into a routine where we were two ships passing, discussing kid-related topics and attributing our lack of energy to do more than that to our not having slept in seven years! We were sinking... More >>

One day I walked into the master bedroom after my husband had left for work and found that he had made the bed. I had meant to text him to thank him, but it kept slipping my mind... More >>

I picked up 'The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands' for a friend, and then I started reading it first! I immediately saw how I had inadvertently discounted my amazing and patient husband... More >>

My husband and I married young, and after forty years, four kids, nine grandkids (and two on the way), we both jokingly tell everyone we 'ran off the dock, jumped in and started our life together.' We were so sure and so happy. The joke is that neither of can swim... More >>

When my marriage was young, and my babies were younger, I had mommy trouble. My brother and dad both died a year apart due to natural causes, which set my mother back 75 years... More >>

I was a school social worker prior to giving birth to our first son, and at the time, my husband and I planned for me to return to work and place our son in daycare... More >>