New Year’s resolutions are hard. It means changing your habits and routines. Make it a little easier by making changes in incremental steps to start. This allows your mind to focus on an attainable goal. You as moms are holding your family together and managing schedules. Your whole family needs you to be healthy and have emotional and physical energy for them. There are three areas that most moms need help with that are explained below.

We all hope for a picture-perfect Christmas. With our already overloaded, stressful schedules, our dream of providing the kind of Christmas we see on social media evaporates very quickly and our stress level elevates just at the thought of it.

The older I get the more important gathering as family is. Even writing this the tears are coming. So how can I be grateful when I am so sad or frustrated?

Most of us want to be grateful people. Here are seven ways to help you and your children become more grateful. 

With the holidays around the corner, our children are dreaming of the gifts they want and making lists or telling you what to buy. And if they don’t get them, they will probably complain and have a fit about it! I remember finding “Christmas wish lists” strategically placed around the house so I would find them, even though my kids knew we didn’t give gifts that way.