Tag: family time
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Finding Peace During Christmas Chaos: Embrace the Magic
The Mess: Christmas Shopping. Tis the season for stressed out women trying to make the Christmas magic happen for everyone. My goal this season was to find peace during the Christmas chaos. This year I was determine to get all the business and busyness of Christmas shopping over and done with early so I could… Read more
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Crabs and the Messy Process of Transformation
Today’s mess is crabs or rather the messy process of transformation in picking crabs.. If you’re from Maryland you know what I mean. Picking crabs a messy process of transformation. If you’re not, perhaps you’ve visited or enjoyed a delicious crab cake from a fancy up-scale restaurant. Maryland Blue Crabs are a delicacy, but if… Read more
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Building Better Boundaries
The Chickens Need Water Featuring my sweet little hens, vicious villainous rooster, and my attempt at building better boundaries. Loretta Lynn and Scarlett O’Hara are the sweetest little hens that you ever did see. Why Loretta and Scarlett? My grandmother absolutely loved Loretta Lynn’s life story. I wanted a daily reminder not of only my… Read more
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Protecting Against Resentment in Relationships
Today’s mess involves a phone call and a completely burnt out wife with two young kids, who is on the verge of losing it (it’s me I’m the burnt-out wife). It is a mess and a reminder on protecting against resentment. It’s a Tuesday in the Taylor household which means gloriously no one has any… Read more