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The SANTA Switch is officially underway in the Weidemann household, but that hasn't stopped my little sweetheart from giving me some of the regular...

I don't know how many Christmases ago it was. Rooney and I stopped by HomeGoods (or TJMaxx?) to get some Christmas placemats for our kitchen table....

A few years ago, I wrote an article for the Christmas issue of World Vision magazine. The article was about how we can all do something powerful in...

She just started school a week ago, and already your little belle is coming home with world-ending drama. Girl friendships change like the tide: yo...

Motherhood. Just the word stirs up a myriad of emotional complexities that make my head spin.  Does it ever feel like it's just too much?  The phys...

Do you ever wonder, like I used to, how you’re going to teach your girl to process her emotions in healthy ways? We want to help our girls manage t...

I will never forget my first parent teacher conference where I was the parent and not the teacher. It was Rooney's first year of preschool, and I w...

I just officiated my first wedding. The pressure was off (the couple had already officially wed in a pre-Covid ceremony), and I was asked to presid...

The future is female. It wasn’t too long ago you’d hear or see that phrase around town or across the internet. As captions on social or on stickers...

Random acts of kindness. Hearing that phrase has always kind of annoyed me. It might be because, as a teacher, I used to hear my kids say the word...

MIRACLE: an event which neither the forces of nature—nor the natural powers of man can produce, and which must, therefore, be referred to a superna...

Pointing out someone’s flaws so I can feel better about my own? Who me? It’s hard to admit, but I spent many of my early years watching other girls...