We all want our kids to like us, right? But the truth is the parent child relationship is about so much more than our kids just liking us. It’s also about more than discipline. Parent child relationships are complicated. Let’s dive in and talk about how we nurture these important relationships in our home.
Leading up to Valentine’s Day tomorrow, let’s talk about learning to love ourselves. Specifically, four ways for young adults to learn to love themselves. We live in a world where so many teens and young adults are trying to find their own sense of self. Are you with me on this? I don’t know what…
I posted this on Instagram, but here it is with a little added insight at the end for the blog too… Last week this girl encircled me with this beautiful hand-made necklace of flowers in a little Peruvian village in the tippy-top of the mountains. The air was thin (13,000 feet elevation). We had been…
Ok let’s get down to business and crank out a recap of January. We started out this brand new year with a little double date to the Fiesta Bowl with these two: Max and Abby were in Texas this Christmas, we missed them but got them before Christmas so we survived:) (The Fiesta bowl along…
Ok I actually don’t think that, because I love witnessing those “true” gentlemen (AND of course “gentlewomen”) in real life. The ones who open the door for you when you’re carrying a heavy load. The kids who look you in the eye when talking to you. The teenagers who ask how they can help when…
At first glance this picture isn’t anything special: I mean, it’s grainy, blurry, bad quality. But it melts my heart to look at it. Because it was a moment at girls camp last summer right after all the girls got notes from their parents from home. Although I wrote big with high contrast on that…
Last year was the tenth anniversary year of this little thing that has grown so much over the years from just a little neighborhood group in the park by our house to this: And this: I don’t know if I ever even posted about what happened last year…the “Turkey Trot Dream Team” (as I like…
Hi! This is Claire and I had the opportunity to live in the Netherlands for a month this last summer. My Month in The Netherlands I had really mixed emotions going into this opportunity. I knew it was coming, (all my older siblings have lived abroad for part of their summer after their junior year)…
Years ago Dave and I decided (inspired by an idea from Dave’s brother), that we wanted to create an opportunity for our kids to do some sort of experience/internship away from home the summer after their junior year. In our opinion, the more different people we can gather to teach our kids, the better. And…