I was staining an arbor my husband built in our yard and my mind started to think about my current reality and how I ended up here.  My mind wandered to the time in my life when I chose to marry my current husband.  I wondered what my life would be like if I had not married him and chose to stay a single mother.  It would be different, that’s for sure, not in a good or bad way, just different. ...

Me time, I rarely get it, unless it’s at 5:00 in the morning, and it's really hard to get up that early these days with a baby who still doesn't sleep well.  Even on vacation, there is no such thing as me time, or rarely even down time.  Notice who is not sitting down in the picture below...me.  (Now granted, I was taking the picture, but sitting down for any length of time was rare.) We were at a family reunion...

Let's talk about skin for a minute.  I really do not like the skin on my face.  After nearly 25 years of struggling with first teenage acne and then adult acne, I finally stumbled upon something that is helping...significantly! I have always been self-conscious of my skin.  Lately I've been accumulating wrinkles, and though I don't enjoy those, I am not as self-conscious about those as I am my acne.  It has resulted in me not answering the door if I don't...