Creative Anniversary Celebrations
What's the most creative way you have ever celebrated your anniversary?Lets keep this PG please! :)

Celebrating Our 20th!
Tomorrow my husband and I will celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary. Both of us consider it a huge deal since we both come from homes of divorce. To celebrate, I surprised him this past weekend with a getaway to a friend's cabin. It was GREAT!!!! Saturday morning we actually slept in 'til 9:30 - something we haven't done in the 20 years we've been married. We spent the day not doing much of anything, but we did talk a lot about the people who have helped us get to where we are today in our marriage. We have been very fortunate to be surrounded by a group of family and friends who have walked this road with us through job transitions, the birth of

Conversations between parents and teens
Loved, loved, loved all the comments about talking to your teens about dating and healthy relationships.October is Let's Talk month, a month set aside nationally to encourage parents to talk with their teens about issues such as sex and healthy dating relationships.As a parent, if you have experienced the eye rolling, exasperated looks and statements like, "I already know all that!" you may be surprised to learn that the majority of teens DO want to talk with their parents about these issues. According to a new publication by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unwanted Pregnancy, teens say that parents most influence their decisions

Let's Talk
I'm just curious how many of you parents of teens have had a conversation with them about relationships and dating?If you have had conversations like this, what do you think are the most important topics to cover?

Love and Respect in Relationships
Well, I don't think folks liked my previous blog post very much. That question was actually posed to a random sample of 400 men. Eighty-two percent of those surveyed said they would rather be alone and unloved in the world than disrespected. I thought that was really interesting.Dr. Emerson Eggerichs, author of Love and Respect and Cracking the Communication Code has spent a lot of time looking at the issue of love and respect in men and women.Bottomline - women want to be loved and men want to be treated with respect. You may be saying....and..... your point? Well, because