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Grandparents Day is on Sunday, September 9. I don’t know about you, but whenever I reminisce about my grandparents, I think of their stories and the stories my parents shared about them. Even though I didn’t see much of my grandparents when I was growing up, my parents did a pretty good job of filling […]

A home without pets feels foreign to me. I’ve known people who sneer at us crazy dog people and can’t understand why we love our dogs so much. My dogs are important members of the beautiful chaos of my family life so this attitude is hard for me to wrap my brain around. Would life

Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.netNow that I have some time under my belt blogging, I finally settled on a title that I think better encompasses my goals for this blog. “The Engaged Family” will continue to address family transition issues and offer ways to more effectively communicate with our children, spouses, and extended family. Family communication has its

Summer vacation starts this week for us. I can’t figure out where this past school year went, but I’m excited about the slower-paced weeks ahead of us. To be honest, usually by mid-July, I’m over the whole summer vacation thing and I’m ready to get my kids back to school! Some families do really well

This post is dedicated to my parents married 40 years this weekend! Congratulations! Photo courtesy Boykung. I’ve been hearing a lot of chatter lately about what we should be doing to make our marriages stronger. You know, cute tips like writing lipstick messages on your bathroom mirror. While there’s nothing wrong with that, when I

“People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.”-Leo J. Burke If you ever want to experience what face-to-face road rage is like try lecturing a sleep deprived mother. One of my biggest pet peeves when I was sleep deprived (which lasted oh, about 5 years — yes, I was a real