by Jessica Scott | Mar 27, 2011 | army mom, empowering parents, mommy fail, Uncategorized, women at war, working mom
So my kids have listening issues. Kind of like the vikings from How to Train Your Dragon on with less self sufficiency. My own yelling at them in return for this misbehavior has created, yeah, you guessed it, more yelling. And a whole lot less discipline than I’d...
by Jessica Scott | Feb 26, 2011 | army mom, deployment, empowering parents, Iraq, military mom, Uncategorized, working mom
Okay so the next time I raise my hand and say, I think I’ll build my kids a swingset, someone slap me. Everything hurts. When I say everything, I mean from the top of my head where I hit it multiple times today to the top of my feet where I dropped a power tool...
by Jessica Scott | Aug 4, 2010 | army mom, army officers, empowering parents, Fort Hood, leadership, military mom, RWA Nationals, social networking, Uncategorized, working mom, Writing
I’ve been trying to get the words right to describe my first conference but it seems like nothing has stopped long enough for me to actually get them down. My agent wants another synopsis for a second book. I just sold another article to the RWA. In the last three...
by Jessica Scott | Jul 19, 2010 | army mom, empowering parents, military mom, moms at war, Uncategorized, women at war, working mom
I’m willing to be you thought it would be roses. You’re wrong. I’m not much of a flower person. I tend to kill all things green so the most you’ll see anything growing in my house is the dust bunny collection. No, what I mean to end the sentence with is your kids....
by Jessica Scott | Jun 4, 2010 | empowering parents, military mom, Uncategorized
As if I don’t have enough on my plate, today I was accepted as a regular blogger over at Empowering Parents. For those of you that have followed my travails as a military mom working through deployment and reintegration, I’ve really struggled. About a week or so ago,...