This post is sponsored by Honey Maid. This past weekend was spent in Tahoe celebrating my in-law’s 40th anniversary, and attending my sister-in-law’s wedding. This was the first time I’ve gone away with my husband’s family, and shared a cabin with half of them. Luckily I met most of them at our wedding in January, […]
Thoughts by Emily
5 Steps to Improve Your Love Life
As a newlywed, and feeling very in love, it is so important for me to keep our love going strong. We fall more in love each day, and I only hope it continues for the rest of forever. Between raising 4 kids together, work, and everything else we have to do, some days it is […]
10 Secrets for Buying Your Dream Home
Purchasing a new home is both stressful and rewarding. The day you get the keys to what you can now call your own home, is a feeling like no other. A house to fix up and decorate just the way you want. Getting to the point of buying a house or condoe is something to […]
How Abuse Made Me Fat and What I Plan To Do About It
The self esteem of a woman is baffling to me. How is it that we so often undervalue ourselves, or determine our worth by others’ actions or words? I can definitely see how and why this is done, but is there a way to stop it? I am on a lifetime mission to see if this […]
What It Means to Become a Mother
It has been 12 years since I found out I would become a mother. I still remember the feeling I had when I went to the store to purchase my first pregnancy test. we were trying to get pregnant so there was a lot of angst, not knowing what the test would say. Now five […]
7 Steps to Improve Your Well-being
Mother’s Day marks the beginning of National Women’s Health Week. Very fitting since us moms like to be pampered (which certainly improves my health and mood) for Mother’s Day. Start off the week with a little pampering, then get on your way to improving your well-being. Face it, us moms are important to those around […]
From Crumpled to Whole in a Year – My Epiphany
It has been far too long since I have written a post just for me. No recipe to be found here (but you can go to my recipe tab if you’d like a yummy one), no sponsored content, no travel tip – just me, writing for me. Life has been quite the roller coaster over […]
My Take on Child Hunger and Project Sunlight Share a Meal
In our advanced and well organized American way of life, it’s hard to believe we still have child hunger. Yes, right here in America there are 16 million children who struggle with hunger – that’s the population of Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia and Chicago combined. Are you as shocked as I am? These […]
Dating After Divorce: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – Meet MORE of the Guys!
A couple of weeks ago I decided to start writing about my experiences of hiring a family law and divorce attorney and going through the entire process, but what I really wanted to go over was my dating experience afterwards. So far, it has NOT been pretty! I am also requesting that you all help […]
Dating After Divorce: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – Meet the Guys!
Now that my divorce is final I’ve decided to do the brave thing and put myself out there again. I hadn’t dated anyone new in over 12 years so it was a bit scary, as you can imagine. I began by putting myself on an online dating website, and then attending some singles activities in my […]