Thank You For Being a Friend.

Relationships. Everyone in the world can relate because almost everyone, unless you are a hermit or a cat lady, encounters some form of a relationship in every day life. Of course there are different kinds of relationships. The relationships of the marital kind, relationships you build with your co-workers, the one with the local Starbucks […]

Veggie Straws.

What it means to be a mom, a wife, a human being…. is something that I have pondered for a while now as my life has gone through many changes over the past few years. The craziest thing about our society is that women have so much pressure. Now I am no feminist, I know […]

Together, there is a chance for change.

I have to say that the hardest part of being a Type One mom is the ignorance that comes from the people around you, even the ones that love you the most. While I was taught to turn the other cheek when it comes to ignorance, there is a method to my madness and anxiety […]

hope is the only thing stronger than fear.

My son Gavin, at eighteen months old, was diagnosed with Type One diabetes. I was in the middle of my shift at the Movie Tavern, working another overtime shift because I was a single mother and rent was due in two days. My mom, who was babysitting my older boys and my newborn twins for […]