Teaching Your Own Children…or Not?!
So it turns out, I’m a pretty natural teacher. Had I not gone into the music industry I am sure I would have been a full-time teacher. At one point I even left the music industry on the worker bee day job side to teach music for LA...
Learning to Adjust
It has been a year and a half since we left our home in Portland and moved across the pond to Stockholm, Sweden and I won’t deny it hasn’t had its challenges. Thank God I taught my daughters Swedish from the moment they were born. If not, this move would have been so...
Blending a Family
“The children are so young – it will be easy. It is the teenagers that are difficult.” This line of information must have been on Oprah or something because none of my friends who fed me this line of LIES had children or stepchildren at the time. I’m pretty sure we...
Talking Bodies
A few short weeks ago, I heard the long-dreaded words from the mouth of my 10-year old daughter: “Mommy, is my butt fat?”
All-at-once, I was transported back to a very dark but familiar place. I wanted to cry. I wanted to erupt into a defiant NO! But I had no...
One kid is fine, two’s still somewhat manageable, three… well, you’re clearly outnumbered and they know it, and by four it might as well be four hundred because you’re basically that dude at the circus juggling flaming chainsaws. You’re not making it out unscathed…
You try to keep them...
