Happy Father’s Day
Happy Father’s Day to all the amazing fathers. I know that today will be filled with mixed emotions. People tend to use this day to uplift single mothers or call out deadbeat dads. I get it. However, there are amazing…
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What Not to Stress Over During COVID-19 Times
We don’t have to have it altogether. I have seen the memes and yes if you are a creator or someone who is thriving on one front you may have the ability to create or acquire more skills. It may…
Happy Birthday Naila
Today is such a holiday in my world. My oldest is 10! 10 years of love. 10 years of peace! 10 years of pure joy! Pure Joy I love that I was chosen to be her mother! She has been…
Monday Motivation: Morale is Important
We understand morale in the sense of working with a team. If you are at work and morale is lost it could be a number of factors that affect morale. It could be from not having an understanding manager, having…
Ask Toi: How to Forgive a Cheating Parent?
Reader’s father cheated on their mother and reader needs help…. It’s hard to not have your parent on a peddlestool especially a father. As a kid you may have been sheltered from the things that were really going on. That’s understandable,…
Ode to 20 Years of Service
My dad is retiring from the military today. What an amazing accomplishment. I am not writing this from his perspective but from mine in seeing him put his life on the line for every American. This is for every hard…
Operating In Offense
So today I was reminded of what it looks like to operate in offense. Operating in offense is when you are so offended by someone or something that you can’t hear what others are saying to you. You are snippy, rude,…
Ask Toi: How do I handle my ex-husband when I’ve asked him to clean his home before the kids come for their visits?
Back story for my readers is they have a custody order to split time. It’s been working. The problem is the kids are old enough to verbally state that not only is the home unclean but its more or less…
Ask Toi: Do you think people should go to counseling before having Children?
Yes and no. I think that if you have had things happen in your childhood that affects your ability to raise your children then yes. If once you have children you notice things that come up, by all means run…
Monday Motivation: Mario Kart Life
Today is a day like any day to make the best out of our situations. Let’s not front and act as if everyone woke up with their affairs in order. You might have gotten up this morning with stress on…