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Should Both Parents Tend to the Baby at Night?

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Whose job is it to get up in the middle of the night to tend to a crying infant? There was a time when the automatic assumption was that this task was entirely for the mother. Today, there are plenty of parents who realize that there are good reasons to share this responsibility. Babies are incredibly cute. They can also be exhausting. Many babies simply refuse to sleep through the night. They loudly let their parents know that they need a diaper change or want to be fed. At least one parent needs to get up to tend to the … Continue reading →

Me Focused

A marriage needs to be nurtured.  It requires sacrifice, giving and selflessness.  But it can’t always be “other focused.” You see, if all of your efforts go into pleasing your spouse, its going to cause burnout or possibly bitterness.  This means that just as important as it is to take care of your spouse and your marriage, you need to take care of yourself. A failure to take care of yourself physically, emotionally and spiritually won’t make you a better marriage partner.  You are more likely to struggle with fatigue, depression, irritability and lots of other not-so-pleasant qualities that can … Continue reading →

His Needs, Her Needs by Willard F. Harley Jr.

This is truly my favorite relationship book. It really gets to the core of the problem, explains why things like infidelity happen and then give you tools to prevent it. The analogies in this book are great, for example, the Love Bank. They use the love bank to explain how when you meet someone and things are wonderful, this person is making deposits in your love bank. Eventually those deposits add up to a marriage. They also explain how certain things cause withdrawals from your love bank. In the normal course of marriage you will both make deposits and withdrawals … Continue reading →

Pick Your Battles

I’m a firm believer and I have blogged about picking your battles when it comes to raising teenagers. But I think the same can be said about a marriage. In fact, it seems that we tend to be a bit more nit-picky in our marriages than in any other relationship. Slight irritations can be made into huge deals. Those things we knew about our spouse when we married them suddenly becomes impossible to live with another day. But many of those irritations and frustrations we may experience in a marriage are just not worth the battle. You know the old … Continue reading →

Doctor Performs Daughters’ Plastic Surgery

I am rather anti-plastic surgery, at least for young women. Maybe that is because I am older and can see sagging places that could use a nip or tuck (not that I’d have that done). I figure when you are young, plastic surgery is unnecessary unless you have some physical defect that needs to be corrected. So, when I read that Dr. Michael Niccole performed plastic surgery on his daughter Brittani, I was somewhat aghast. I read once about an emergency room doctor who had to perform emergency surgery on his wife who had been hit while bicycling. That is … Continue reading →

UCSF Might do Transplant for Navarro After All

After much public outrage, it seems that the University of California -San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF) may have agreed to preform the kidney transplant that Jesus Navarro needs. However, the hospital still wants proof that he can pay for the follow up care. The hospital says he was not denied specifically because he is in the United States illegally. Jesus Navarro is 35 years old. He has a wife, and a three year old daughter. He had been working, full time, at the Pacific Steel Foundry for fourteen years. He somehow managed to continue to work full time while in … Continue reading →

The Journal of Best Practices Book Review

What if your husband came with a manual, one that might explain why he does the things he does? I haven’t met a wife yet who hasn’t at one time or another looked at her husband and thought, “What the heck were you thinking?” For the Finch family, though, the problems with husbands get a little weirder, such as his tendency to burst out quacking at parties or his inability to spend any time with the kids without blowing up in anger. Their marriage is suffering, and they may be on the brink of divorce. Five years into their marriage, … Continue reading →

What is a Coupon Train?

The other day, a friend in California posted on Facebook that she was looking to start a coupon train and I had no idea what she was talking about! But, being a green blogger, I figured I had better investigate this, especially since I did my blog on extreme couponers. Ever go through the paper and see a good coupon, but you just have no use for it? That is the purpose of a coupon train. The way I’ve found it to be, the person that decides to start the coupon train comes up with about $100 worth of coupons … Continue reading →

How to Function Efficiently in Your Home

In my last blog I talked about the importance of functioning in your management of the home. Functioning can help you just get by. But if you want more than that, you need to learn how to function efficiently. I love the idea of running an efficient home. It means that things go along at a smooth pace. Everyone knows what to expect, where to find things and how to make it all come together. But you can’t run an efficient home without certain components in place. First, it takes the entire family to make this happen. It can’t just … Continue reading →

She’s Leaving Home

My baby bird is getting ready to fly the nest. I know, a little dramatic but I’m feeling pretty dramatic right about now. For the past several years I’ve been thinking about what my life will be like when Hailey leaves home. Now she is ready to move out. In the next month or so she and her boyfriend will be getting a place of their own. I feel silly even saying this out loud, but what’s to become of me? I’ve spent so much of my life being a wife and mother that I’m not sure what to do … Continue reading →