Tonight, after a night out carousing (we’re currently on a girlfrends getaway), my best friend related a story about how, once upon a time, as she was young, she would love to pick dogweeds and put them in her hair.
“They looked so pretty…but later I realized, they smelled really bad.”
I wonder if that may be symbolic of the mistakes ALL of us keep on making in our relationships…going for the guys that are wrong for us, and are bad for us, but yet, we are attracted to anyway.
Why do we insist on doing this to ourselves???
I’m sad. Sad for me, …read more

This picture is worth 1,000 words. And here they are:
 
I love this picture because it is a metaphor for the year in which I have been raising my son. This is his first birthday photo, his view of the world, walking side by side with Mommy. I took time off work to experience his first year of life and it was a fulfilling experience.
 
Zack learned to walk, learned a few words and learned to strive for independence. And he did it all with my guiding hand by his side. We walk side by side, I teach him and he learns. …read more