by Brooke Romney | May 23, 2017 | Parenting
Every year seems to go by more quickly…we are already at the end of school and I wish I could freeze time. This year has been especially wonderful…amazing teachers, good friends and boys growing into more of the men I hope they will become. At the end of...
by Brooke Romney | Apr 10, 2017 | Relationships
Stop Being Friendly and Start Being a Friend Stop being friendly and start being a friend — those are genuinely different things, and most of us have spent years doing the first while convincing ourselves we were doing the second. Being friendly means...
by Brooke Romney | Feb 1, 2017 | Relationships
11 Ways to Show Gratitude for a Working Spouse To show gratitude for a working spouse was not something Brooke was particularly good at for the first years of her marriage. When she chose to stay home twelve years before writing this essay, the hours were long, the...
by Brooke Romney | Nov 23, 2016 | Gift Ideas, Holidays
It is hard in our digital world to find great gifts for boys that don’t involve a computer or iSomething screen, but we have discovered some incredible finds over the past few years that I would love to share! Our newest finds are listed first, and items...
by Brooke Romney | Nov 6, 2016 | Holidays
A Fun Thanksgiving Family Tradition: Grateful Pig Meet Grateful Pig, our favorite Thanksgiving family tradition. Many years ago my mom gave us a sparkly piggy bank and shared a sweet poem with us about gratitude. Now, each November we pull out Grateful Pig. Most years...