Please stop the Britney song you are playing in your head and let me tell you my story. When J and I married, we were in the middle of getting our restaurant, Big J’s, off the ground so it was literally “grind” time. We didn’t even make time for a honeymoon. With school starting the next week after our wedding, we continued on with life as normal. Fast forward to 2017, the best year of our marriage to date. New Beginnings 2017… Things were going really well for me as a health

With the holidays approaching, many of us will be surrounded by family and friends. This is always a good time to let your hair down and focus on the things and people that are important to you. That’s what all the good ole sermons and optimistic social media posts will say. However, some of you are dreading spending time with your in-laws, not all of them, just some. Let me help you “Survive Your In-Laws” with a few things I’ve learned and seen along the way. You’ve arrived…

I was at Tori’s open house last night, fighting the Florida heat as well as trying to maneuver the 4000 people that were also attending. As I was standing outside of the cafeteria where the real craziness was attempting to get a “Schedule Change Form”, because you know giving the kids the classes they actually registered for last year was too much like right, I heard the most unusual conversation. What THEY said… Mom in Pink: “Can you believe they are starting 6th grade?” Mom

It was probably our longest day in pre-marital counseling. I mean we unearthed some hard truths when we got on the topic of Submission. I found out my husband’s soul was trapped in 1826 and somehow his body was here with me. What he said… He had the audacity, the unmitigated gall to refuse my request to omit the “love and OBEY” out of our wedding vows. See, if you know me… I barely obey myself so committing to obey him…. Yea that wasn’t going to happen. Obey?! Not Kobe beef b

It’s unconventional, to say the least, but my three dads all get along fabulously and it makes family events MUCH easier. I’ve seen so many women try to slight the role a father figure plays in a child’s life but to me it’s VITAL. The support I have received from my fathers are instrumental to my emotional health. The way that I have seen them carry their responsibilities allows me to hold my husband to a different set of standards because I know he has SEEN men who hold them

The pain of it is still real today like it just happened. I knew it was coming, I had seen the signs but when my grandmother could no longer remember my name… a part of me died. I called on a Sunday like I do on occasion and she asked my Uncle who I was (which was normal at this point). He told her “Its Latrese, Ma” (normally this is when she says… “I knew it was Latrese sounding like Ms. Obama”) Not that day though, that day she said “Who is Latrese?” Many people aren’t clos

This weekend I sat down with my entire family to watch NetFlix’s “When They See Us”, created by Ms. Ava DuVernay; about the “Central Park 5” bka the “Exonerated 5”. The miniseries was released on May 31st and has received a lot of buzz, rightfully so. It was masterfully done and I am so glad that the REAL story has been told. Background… In case you aren’t familiar with the story, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Korey Wise, Antron McCray and Yusef Salaam (ages 14-16) were