When our children are born, we have total control over every part of their lives
Wash your face, comb your hair, pick up your room, put your dirty clothes in the hamper, clear your plate, wipe the table, sweep up your mess, take off your shoes, cut your hair---your clothes are too tight, too loose,…
My baby met her daddy in prison
My baby, Bria, was just 3 days old the first time she entered a prison visiting room. She was there to met her daddy and her daddy was about to meet her. They were about to meet each other, and it was in a prison visiting room. I…
7 things to do that will keep your kids from being at risk
“My kids will never act like that. I can’t believe those parents aren’t stopping their children from behaving like that!” As I watched parents try and control their kids, I couldn’t help but think how bad of parents they were. I told…
How to Co-Parent When Your Man is Locked Up
Raising kids is a challenging, and co-parenting is an even greater challenge. Put one of the parents in prison, and it sounds like a Mission Impossible assignment. In many ways, it is impossible to co-parent in the traditional sense of partnering. However, with a little ingenuity…
Some things in life just come naturally.
Other things, we have to learn, practice, and keep working on to get right. I think gratefulness falls into both of those categories.
Have you ever watched a small child explore their world and seen their face light up with joy when they find something new or unexpected?…
One of the most difficult things for me to do was to get off of welfare.
Yes, I did mean to write, “get off of welfare.” Many people think the hardest part was getting on welfare. It was not hard to start receiving the assistance. I was utterly grateful, and a little desperate, for the…
You must find a way to connect with your husband while he is in prison
Writing letters is important. Emails and phone calls don’t accomplish the same thing. Prison changes everything, but it changes how you communicate the most.
There is nothing more intimate than a handwritten letter. Nothing replaces the strokes of a pen that…
It seemed like a lifetime since he had lived in the same house with us. Our sons had grown from toddlers to teens. Our lives had changed so much in that decade.
Being a single mother is a very tough job.
Not only are you mother (which is a huge responsibility all by itself!), but you are also provider and protector while parenting solo. Being a single mother can be very daunting. You work hard all day and into most of the night to make sure your…
Why? This simple word can hold so much emotion and so much passion.
It is the question we ask when we are seeking an answer to the extraordinary pain we encounter. But sometime in our journey, the “why?” changes from a desperate cry for help to a surrendered question of purpose. The word same…