As a vet I often see pet owners focusing on their pets, but they often don’t realize how their own wellbeing impacts their fur family. Pets do so much to serve the humans who take care of them. Have you ever been ill or just having a bad day and your pet comes over...
The Beatles have said a lot of different things about love, however, there are some key phrases that I think are absolutely true, “Love is all you need” and “Can’t buy me love.” We often think of these songs in terms of romantic love, which may be true, but we can...
The moment a baby arrives is a celebration and an opportunity for a blessing of the baby’s birth. Many cultures have different traditions for welcoming the baby. The moment a baby is born is a time to celebrate the gift of birth and all of the joy that it...
“Mom, I don’t feel quite like myself today,” my 5-year-old told me a few weeks ago. This has been said a few different times in a few different ways since the onset of Covid-19 and the restrictions we have placed on ourselves (for many reasons) to help keep our family...
Gratitude. As kids our parents drill into us the need for manners, to say please and thank you. Some of us may have been taught to pray before bedtime, to thank God for our blessings of the day. While some of this is to ensure we are polite as we interact in the...
As a mother of two little girls, I have had two very different postpartum experiences. As I write this, I am currently in my 4th Trimester after my second daughter’s birth and am feeling all of the pressures (both internal and external) to ‘bounce back’ from having a...
