Selfless Ambition

I have several trips coming up this summer starting with a work trip to Boston this week and I'm doing my best to STAY OUT OF THE MALL, y'all. I placed a 6 month shopping ban on myself in January (which I've mostly failed at because a good sale is my drug of choice), because I have so many things in my closet that I've either never worn or only worn once or twice. And that's just plain crazy. So, rather than go out and buy a bunch of new stuff I'll wear only o… Read more

My Ryann. Oh, my middle child, Ryann. She's both a toddler AND a middle child at the moment. Pray for us. Our family dynamic is such that she was once the only child in our home since my stepdaughter lived with her mom the first 2.5 years of Ryann's life. So, for 2.5 years, she got all of our attention. Then literally within the same month (March 2016), we brought her baby sister home and my stepdaughter moved in with us full-time. We went from 1 kid to THREE KIDS FULL-TIME i… Read more

Jada Pinkett Smith, her mother Adrienne, and daughter Willow debuted their Facebook talk show, Red Table Talk, today. Y'all...the first episode was EVERYTHING. I even dropped a couple thug tears. In the episode, Jada, a fellow bonus mom, sat down with Will's ex-wife and her bonus son's mother, Sheree Fletcher for a very (and I mean VERY) candid conversation about their 20+ year co-parenting journey. While you could feel the love and respect between the two, you definitely… Read more