Help Yourself

Sometimes you just have to decide to help yourself.  There are plenty of reasons: to take care of you. to be an advocate for your wishes. to become something more. to learn something valuable. to relax. to eat first. to Read More …

Going Back In Time

It really isn’t possible, at least with today’s technology to pull a Back to the Future, going back in time to see your parents as teenagers, or even as parents of you, as a teen. Instead, you get to do Read More …

Starting Again

So many things have new beginnings, new school – kindergarten, middle school, high school, college, new job, work…marriage, having children, raising them and then sending them off – always starting again and again. We have been talking to friends and Read More …

Growing Family

We are truly, very truly lucky to have a growing family… From new babies and first time dads to the new mom (at least for the first time with us…) from our beautiful, blushing bride-to-be to all of her sisters, Read More …

First Major Crisis

The true merit and success or failure of a new business is how they handle their first major crisis. We (my husband, our former fellow franchise owners and I) know all about the ways that weather can impact your fresh Read More …