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.

A few years ago we invited friends over who didn’t have family to share Thanksgiving with. Wanting to encourage gratitude, I placed dry Erase markers on the window panes next to the festive dining table.

As guests arrived, I invited them to write several things they were thankful for on the window.

How do we get relief when we have no control of our circumstances? How can we be happy when anxiety and fear surround us?

Most children don’t like bedtime—and they find all kinds of ways to avoid going there. It’s an enemy of fun and freedom.

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?