While many families count down the days to vacation days from school, I count the days until the kids get back to the school routine. It’s not because I don’t want time with my kids – it’s because they need the structure. What most families view as fun and unstructured, my family views as … [Read more...]
Blackberries, Debt and Spider solitaire
March 29, 2010 By 1 Comment
This weekend I decided to “not work”. I was not going to work on my Warrior mama business. I was not going to become a slave driving cleaning machine getting the house cleaned. I was not going to make my menus for the week and do the grocery shopping. The only think I was going to do was … [Read more...]
My Parenting Report Card
March 27, 2010 By 3 Comments
I have been giving this a lot of thought since I off handedly decided to publicly grade myself. It’s kind of like when you know you’ve done something wrong and your parents want to know what you think the punishment should be. So in the interest of full disclosure, I will be brutally honest. Not … [Read more...]
Chipotle
March 26, 2010 By 2 Comments
Oh how I love Chipotle! It is the only restaurant – other than Red Robin – where my kids can eat. Here’s what we get: Job gets crispy tacos, chicken, lettuce and mild salsa. Lizzie gets a burrito bowl with rice, black beans, chicken and lettuce. Allergy FREE to go please! … [Read more...]
$1400 a month food bill
March 25, 2010 By 4 Comments
How in the world can I spend $1400 a month in food for a family of 4? I have 3 words for you – organic and gluten free. My journey through healing my children has taken me down many expensive roads. Changing our diet has been a big one. Hippocrates said, “Let food be your medicine and medicine … [Read more...]
Branding Warrior Mama
March 24, 2010 By 4 Comments
I know I promised you a blog post giving myself a parenting report card. I have been a little side tracked. That post is coming Saturday. But today I will share with you what I have been struggling with, my “brand”. As many of you know, I am starting a business. I have created business plans … [Read more...]
Vanity or self preservation?
March 20, 2010 By 1 Comment
My phone has been ringing off the hook with supportive family loving my vanity post yesterday. It is great to have family support when you feel you are “being selfish”. I have heard the analogy before about equating taking care of yourself to putting the oxygen on first in an airplane so … [Read more...]
Vanity
March 19, 2010 By 2 Comments
As a Warrior mama I have deferred many of my own goals for my children. I’m a mom. We do that. About 4 weeks ago I was at a friend’s house talking about aging. She was talking about these fabulous facial products that erase wrinkles. I said that’s great, but I don’t have wrinkles. Then she … [Read more...]
A new way of connecting alternative care providers with sick kids
March 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Warrior MAMA ~ Parents helping Parents Hi my name is Lisa and I have developed Warrior MAMA.com. I am also known as Warrior MAMA. My 2 kids have been diagnosed with many disorders including asthma, allergies, ADHD and autism. Just like you I have had to seek out healing and restorative … [Read more...]
Marriage Faith
March 15, 2010 By 5 Comments
For the full story start here My "Faith" History A faith of my own Confession and Confirmation The Bishop Eucaristic Ministry and junior year College Faith One year out of school I married hubby. We started attending his parent’s church. I jumped in with both feet and was … [Read more...]
College faith
March 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
For the full story start here My "Faith" History A faith of my own Confession and Confirmation The Bishop Eucaristic Ministry and junior year My college years were filled with bitterness toward God. Clearly He had wooed me and created a relationship with me, but not my immediate … [Read more...]
Eucharistic Ministry and Junior year
March 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
For the full story start here My "Faith" History A faith of my own Confession and Confirmation The Bishop In junior year religion class you have to write a research paper. I chose to write mine contrasting the differences between … [Read more...]
The Bishop
March 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
For the full story start here My "Faith" History A faith of my own Confession and Confirmation I am an analyzer, a thinker and a debater. Most of my peers looked at religion class as a requirement. Not me. I looked forward to it. I wanted to know more. I wanted … [Read more...]
Confession and Confirmation
March 11, 2010 By 3 Comments
You may want to start by reading My "Faith" History and A faith of my own Eighth grade is a big year in the Catholic faith. It is the year you are confirmed. Confirmation in the Catholic faith is then the child who was baptized as an infant by their parents takes ownership of that baptism … [Read more...]
A faith of my own
March 10, 2010 By 2 Comments
You may want to start by reading My "Faith" HistoryNow on to “my faith” part 2 The summer of my sixth grade year I went to my first overnight camp at Camp Carl in Akron, Ohio. I went with a friend from school that promptly got home sick and went home. Most of my friends were at the Catholic camp … [Read more...]
My “faith” history
March 9, 2010 By 1 Comment
Like so many of you, my faith has been pivotal in my outlook on life. It is the foundation that I turn to when I feel so small in the world and my problems seem so large. My story is unique and funny. Over the next week I will take you along on my journey from first communion to today. Maybe I’ll … [Read more...]
Parents, Infertility and finding my way
March 6, 2010 By 5 Comments
Do you remember the first time you made an adult decision for your life that your parents didn’t approve of? I do. I was an extremely easy child to raise. Ask my sister. She’s still mad I didn’t pave the way better! I married young and was very close to my mother. We talked at least once a … [Read more...]
Saying Goodbye to things you love… and changing direction.
March 5, 2010 By 5 Comments
Change is hard. In the past 5 years I have dealt with my parent’s divorce, my father’s ill health and death. Our children were both also diagnosed with special needs in that same time. Like I mentioned in the comments of my MRS post; my college dream was to get married and be a barefoot … [Read more...]
For the Parents
March 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I was describing my Autism-AHDH in Cincinnati website to a friend the other day and she asked me if I was making this for the kids or for the parents. I thought it was an interesting question. I was afraid I had the wrong answer… but I am making it for the parents. I know the altruistic motive of … [Read more...]
You can be anything you want to be…
March 2, 2010 By 1 Comment
Many of us tell our children, “You can be anything you want to be.” Maybe it was the four previous generations of entrepreneurs in my family. Or watching both my parents take businesses and double their productivity in a year’s time. Or maybe it was just being an American and knowing that here … [Read more...]
