Every day you get older, the more it dawns on you that your parents are just people, which might help you come to terms with everything that happened in your childhood. Or, it might make you resent them even more because they decided to become parents when they had no idea what they were doing. Recently, I passed the age my mom was when she had my older sister, and it made me wonder how she managed to do it when I could not feel further away from having kids of my own. Thankfully, I do not rese…

If you had to live through what Cinderella went through with her stepmother and step-sisters, how do you think you would've handled the situation? Would you have stood up to them when they tried to bully you into doing all the house chores, or would you have done what Cinderella did, basically sticking it out until a prince came to rescue her? Out in the real world, I am sure there are plenty of ‘real Cinderella stories’, about people who have to deal with mean step-parents or step-siblings, an…

That might backfire

She wants her share

She's in preschool

She's lost her passion

That's not her money to spend

Something doesn't seem right

That's way too much money

Seems excessive

Toys have meaning

The most wholesome father-daughter duo

It had to be said.

The older I get, the more I am drawn to becoming a stay-at-home mom. Granted, I do not have any kids yet, but once I do, I am starting to grow fond of the idea of staying home and taking care of them as my full-time job. I am also fully aware that being a stay-at-home mom is no easy task, and often it is even harder than a normal 9-5 job. That is why I think it is important that everyone who grew up with a mom who gave up on her career to raise her kids, should really show their appreciation. U…

Sometimes it's really easy to sit behind our keyboards or phones and judge other people and their life choices. But if we think a bit harder about certain situations and try to imagine what we would have done in those scenarios, we might just realize that some decisions are much harder to make than it seems. I can safely say I have no idea what I would have done in the scenario presented in this Reddit story. I love my mom, and I like to think I would have done anything in my power to make her…

Did I mention this was his 4th broken engagement?