Archive for July, 2011

Tweet All was good until I began cleaning the floors…that’s when my mom unexpectedly showed up. I was getting ready for company last week.  I had been determined NOT to knock myself out cleaning the house.  I told myself “These are good friends, forgiving friends who will love me despite any failings in housework.” “Your fooling yourself Kim” says my mom…clear as day…as if she was there in the room.  But she wasn’t, she was in my head!  “Those floor boards are really overdue for a cleaning and look at the dust on the living room shelves!  You’d better get on that” ... [read more]...

Tweet Being a working mom sucks! Your damned if you do and damned if you don’t! There are times where I am absolutely split down the middle between wanting to stay home to do home work and having to go to work or work from home. I have dreams you know….to become a lead CEO, Oprahish woman of my own company and there is a great amount of clarity for that vision.  That is until my little one says something like, “put that away…stop working and be with me.”  I crumble. Right then I want abandon my CEO world for this precious loving child. I have wonderful dreams of ... [read more]...

Tweet I was reminded that I have a story and that my mission is to share my story, not for the sake of the story but for the opportunity to offer HOPE that ‘the story’ is not the definition of who you are and there is no need to hold onto the negativity of it. The stories that women carry through life often have a common theme of loss and regret. I had a still birth, an abortion.  I gave my child up for adoption I gave myself away through sex. I lied, I deceived, I stole. I regret…. Any or all of these can rest in our hearts for years, if not a lifetime. It is only by going THROUGH the ... [read more]...