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Mothers Loving Mothers

This morning, I wondered what or if I should even write an exert regarding this fabulous day we all rave about. Mothers come in so many forms–some young, some old, some gentle, some bold, yet in the end being a mom creates a label like no other. It requires patience, stamina, sacrifice, cooking, cleaning, crying, and a deep seeded joy to pass around when your well has ran plumb dry. Most of us…

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What New Years,  Transformations, Sunday, and Black Eye Peas Have in Common

Every year a new year rings in like clockwork. And be it minute or colossal transformations are bound to take place in all of our lives. I view transforming as part of the evolution of life, as part of the journey, and black eye peas as a supplemental boost to getting us there.

For years, I ingested the idea of making  a new year resolution only to hear many continue to state how they failed…

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Utilizing God's Natural Resources to Spruce Up the Holiday--Part 2

Utilizing God’s Natural Resources to Spruce Up the Holiday–Part 2

In November we utilized candy corn, beans, peas, and cranberries to spruce up the Thanksgiving Holiday. And though nature has produced enough greenery, flowers, fruits, and vegetables to transform Christmas into a tantalizing year you’d never forget, once again pine cones have taken over. 

This year, every store I peeped into from high-end jewelry stores  to preppy children boutiques, pine cones…

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Spruce UpYour Holiday with God's Natural Resources...Part 1

Spruce UpYour Holiday with God’s Natural Resources…Part 1

Oh give thanks for God is good. With his love, he has doted us with pine trees, cranberries, corn, peas, acorns and much more. Just take a walk, outside, through your backyard, your neighborhood, your kitchen, and you could discover a harvest of decorative delites to transform your home into an inviting  space.

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Thank God...

Thank God…

Next week we will give Thanks for the esthetic beauty and harvest God has bestowed upon us, our families, our land, our country.  We will also thank him for ourselves. Yelp that’s right. Without a few me’s there would be no us’s. Though unconventionaly said and written lousy, you get the gist.  We must care for ourselves in order to fit correctly inside of a group, a marriage, a relationship.…

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Teaching Our Daughters To Stand UP...Against Sexual Harassment

Teaching Our Daughters To Stand UP…Against Sexual Harassment

According to my phone, today is October 31, 2017, decades since women were not allowed to vote in our country, head fortune 500 companies, crash glass ceilings, or even run for presidency. All of the above proves American women have been empowered. There is no reason to fear Standing UP against sexual harassment and the debilitating effects it has on women.

Months ago, it was Bill Cosby heading…

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Inspire your daughter/children to read by becoming an advid reader yourself.

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Making a Decision? Include Your Daughter/children in the Process

Strangely enough, for most of us mothers either raising or have raised daughters between the age of 8 and 12,  all we do or did is pass out orders, Susie do this, Carly do that. Engaging with our girls on a  “real” big-girl-level often times seemed  worthless and time consuming being their needs, at that age, are or were so extensive. Yet, after raising two beautiful ladies, I discovered they…

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Factory Worker Inspires Daughter to become a Writer--an Essie Mae Gault Story

Factory Worker Inspires Daughter to become a Writer–an Essie Mae Gault Story

Sometimes sharing other people’s stories can be more inspiring than our own. That is why today, I’m highlighting a recent article I read by Dale Anderson regarding The Essie Mae Gault’s story.  

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As we know Essie Mae was a factory worker and a single mother,…

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I Raised My Girls in the Library

And we’re still reading.

In 1991, I re-entered the world of college, carting one child on my hip, and tugging the other by the hand. Both girls treasured their days of being hauled in and out of the library, while mommy studied or combed through the world of books. Whether studying or searching for a profound book to influence a research paper, the girls cherished the time they spent with me and…

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For Decades, Essie Mae Washington- Williams and her Mother Hid Senator Strom Thurman's Secret

For Decades, Essie Mae Washington- Williams and her Mother Hid Senator Strom Thurman’s Secret

For Years, Essie Mae stood by and kept her mouth shut as her father, Senator Strom Thurman, made his mark in the world. Mostly, in the segregated South where he began by running as a Dixiecrat candidate and pledged, “There’s not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the n—– race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes and…

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Our First Love

Before we loved the boy next door or the boy in the back of our math class or even dad for that matter we loved mom–mom who carried us for nine months all squashed up in her womb or mom who selflessly sacrificed for another mom and adopted us before we could leave the hospital. All we could do was wrap four of our tiny fingers around one of theirs or squint at them through film covered eyes, yet…

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Brains vs Beauty in 2017? Or Both?

How much do our daughters care about brains vs beauty in 2017? Is it something that we as mothers actually chat with them about? Or do we leave it to nature to define our daughters.

When 2017 rolled around there was so much in the status quo to discuss until I didn’t know where to start, especially with President Obama and his family leaving the White House and the current President Donald Trump…

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How to Make Giving Money, Money, Money as a Gift Fun

How to Make Giving Money, Money, Money as a Gift Fun!

  Are you one of those generous people who loves to give gifts, as long as it consist of giving cash, gift cards, or checks? BORING!!!

It doesn’t have to be. There are so many ways to spruce up a dollar bill before passing it on as a gift.

Of course the money tree and money wreath has been around for ages–even if it has evolved past using clothes pins to add a buck or two.

    But there’s nothing…

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Alright Now Ladies- It's Christmas Time!

Alright Now Ladies- It’s Christmas Time!

And, FIRST things FIRST-

Let’s acknowledge, why many of us believe Christmas even exist.

Now, Let’s Get The Show On The Road!

Though I’m not here to advocate for Pinterest, it’s my home away from home, my go to for pretty things, and definitely my help in the midst of a how-to-storm. So, on behalf of Pinterest, most of the unique ideas you find here today come from my helping hand, my ride or…

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Should a Mother Share Her Not So Sugary & Spicy Past with Her Daughter/s?

Should a Mother Share Her Not So Sugary & Spicy Past with Her Daughter/s?

Sharing my past with my daughters

When I was growing up during the 60’s most mother’s hid their past from their daughters. You know the part that wasn’t so nice and whipped up with cherries on top. Perhaps they chose this route for several reasons, like protecting themselves from false accusations or keeping the past in the past, or how about they didn’t want their past to come back and stab…

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A Letter To Mom

Join Us, Like us, and Respond to our Guest Author Victoria Bradford's-Letter To Mom

In 1983, I was 13 years old. Mom wasn’t expected to survive. I can still see my siblings and I leaving Kansas city for California to stay with my dad, as mom experienced her first bout with cancer. But as God would have it, months later mom made a miraculous turn around. She was going to survive. What a day that was. Timing was perfect. School would be starting in a few days, and we could return…