“Sticks and stone will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”
How many of us have been told this as a comfort when our feelings HAVE been hurt by someone’s words to us or about us? This old...
Friendship is hard. It's hard any time in life, but it seems like in this season of parenting, it's even harder. It's harder to maintain old friendships (especially if they do no have children and live far away). It's...
...and I think maybe you should be, too.
Ashley’s post on her birthing experience a few weeks ago had me in reflection for awhile.
I have three kids. With each pregnancy, I’ve gone into the birth with a completely different attitude....
As a semi-only child (one brother seven years older) with parents too wise/lazy to over schedule my childhood with activities, I'm someone who likes having free time. The way I spend that free time is usually completely worthless (once...
It's 6am on Friday morning and I sneak out of my bed to avoid waking the passed out three year old, who came up to my room a few hours earlier with complaints of a bad dream, needing water...
My love affair with thrift store shopping has been burning deep inside since I realized I could buy weird, soft, old t-shirts from Goodwill instead of "borrowing" them from friends or finding them in the lost and found. I've...
My sister and I always joke that our mom (a teacher, well-deserving of her three-month break) sent us to a Vacation Bible School every single week during the summer. It didn't matter if it was at a Methodist, Baptist, or Presbyterian church,...
It is every parent's dream for their children to eat their veggies! We hear it all the time, how we need to have them eat more veggies! It is a feat worth bragging about.
Our daughter loves veggies! We have...
Summer is approaching, and you know what that means. It is festival season! There was a time in my life when I would be planning for my trip to Bonnaroo. Then I grew up, moved to the suburbs, had...
I learned the value and magic of the performing arts from a very young age. I started taking ballet when I was four. I appeared with my mother in my first opera at about the same age (as the...
In + Around Chattanooga
Chattanooga Area Christmas And Holiday Parades
The holiday season has arrived and with it come Christmas parades! Wherever you may be in the greater Chattanooga area, there's bound to be...