Our neighbors have a girl the same age as my dd and they are playmates. This girl comes over pretty regularly and I have chatted with her parents a few times. I kept meaning to have them over for dinner but always had an excuse. The house wasn't clean enough, we were tired that night, ect. I'm...

No matter how wonderful you are sometimes other people will try to take advantage of your good nature. They will push you, get you to do more than your fair share and keep asking you to do even more. And worst of all -- often your efforts will be taken for granted. Unless you can say No, the...

All this snow has made me thankful for things I used to take for granted. I had a "awakening" on my last shopping trip. With all the snow we've had, trucks haven't been able to make their usual deliveries. There were only 5 bananas left at the local grocer (I bought 2). The diapers at...