This week we took the girls to 12 mile beach in Grand Marais, Michigan, and the beach was covered in beautiful stones.  So many brilliant colors to choose from, and they had bags with them holding their Keep Reading...

You Can’t Take It All – Cherish The One

You may have heard about the “ripple effect”.   A ripple effect is a situation in which, like ripples expanding across the water when an object is dropped into it, an effect from an initial state can be Keep Reading...

Larger Than Ourselves – Your Family, Your Ripple Effect

Ah, children.  They believe the world revolves around them.   Think about it – it only makes sense, when they are just discovering the world!  It’s okay that children believe they are the center of the Keep Reading...

On Boundaries: Your Children Are Not The Center Of The Universe!

What is romance? Really, what comes to mind as truly romantic for you?  As Nathan and I dive into the sexual intimacy component of love on the Mama Says Namaste Podcast this week, I wanted to Keep Reading...

Romance May Be A Hue, But Desire Is The Sunshine

Nathan loves to joke about sex in our house: Do I want another kid?  Nope. But we can still keep practicing.   This is the second series on the Mama Says Namaste Podcast with my most Keep Reading...

Who Has Time For Sex As A Parent, Anyway? (Episode 14)

Listen.  Observe. What do you see? Imagine you woke up tomorrow morning in a brand new world, identical to earth, but you knew no-one. You still have all the experience and knowledge you currently have, your Keep Reading...

A whole new world – what would you do?