If you can make it past the initial shock of the moment when you realize that for some, being a 30-something is a glamourous and adventurous time of dressing well, hosting dinner parties, running marathons and cliff diving, while for others, it means crusin’ around in a minivan wearing orthopedic shoes while cds and cheerios… [Read More]
It’s Christmas Eve: Bust out the Cake & Candles!
Christmas Eve only means one thing: a baby is about to be born! The excitement is crackling in the air. Can’t you feel it? A birthday to celebrate. A new life to love! Many of my most favorite family traditions center around Christmas Eve. Yes, we attend Mass, have a delicious Christmas Eve dinner, open… [Read More]
Your Birthday: A Day To Celebrate or To Dread?
Birthdays can be such a beautiful thing. Until they aren’t. We celebrate the milestones, like the first birthday, with much fanfare. Cake, friends, gifts and joy permeate the air. The first year is complete! Then there’s double digits, entrance to the teenage years, sweet sixteen and glorious 21. And then it stops. We start to… [Read More]


