by Jaimi Erickson | Jun 10, 2016 | marriage, parenting
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Old Spice (P&G). The opinions and text are all mine. Please view my disclosure. We need to make dads feel special, because dads matter. When I view my work as a stay-at-home as actual work, it gives...
by Jaimi Erickson | May 29, 2016 | marriage, motherhood, motivation
Welcome to Mom Motivation Mondays where weekly contributing writers share their motherhood experiences to encourage you to find the joy in being a mom. {This week: Post by Jaimi} I just experienced parenting alone for 6 ½ months. It was not my first time being the...
by Jaimi Erickson | Feb 13, 2016 | marriage, motherhood, parenting
A parenting partnership has taken my husband and me a few years to create. Seeing eye-to-eye has not always been easy. He is a military guy, so we go from parenting together to him not parenting at all for stretches of time. Distance taught us how important it is to...
by Jaimi Erickson | Feb 12, 2016 | faith, marriage, motivation
It used to bother me. In fact, I probably held a bit of a grudge. When other women would share their proposal story there was romance, excitement, and elaborate details involved. For me, it was better to just gloss over the topic. “He said, ‘Will you marry...
by Jaimi Erickson | Nov 1, 2015 | marriage, motivation
If you had told me I was going to meet my husband that night, I would have bet against it. I am a different person than I was. It was high school after all. Everyone changes and matures as they grow older. I know I did. I like to think we were stuck together...
by Jaimi Erickson | May 5, 2015 | faith, marriage
So, I don’t like to admit it, but I am not a perfect wife… Phew! Full disclosure takes a load off!! 🙂 Viewing marriage as a work in progress helps me remember that we are in this together, he and I. It’s important to note that I could not be a...