About Charity

Life is all about how you pivot. Good can come out of the messy if we’re willing to give it our best shot!

Storms started brewing and I became a single mom when my three daughters were 1-5yrs. Little did we know that we would not only survive, but we would thrive in our new routine.

What I thought would be our biggest life adventure was when I started my private preschool business, attended college on dial-up internet, and scraping together mortgage payments with three little’s. These were times when I thought I was doing everything backward as a mom. I was 24yrs old at the time, struggle on the down hill to pay bills and pivoting at every turn to learn, dream and grow.

Mostly grown up, lots of adventures under our belts, love lost and more love gained, I entered into the empty nester mom season. We pivoted again taking on another hill. (insert lots of laughs and tears HERE!)

As my daughters were starting and graduating college, so did I. Finally! But there were many more things I had started to dream about again and that I wanted to learn.

Most of all, I wanted to understand what I needed to do to be an awesome mom, friend, and example to my young adult daughters. I was witnessing many of my friends alienating and being alienated from their adult children’s lives, and I knew I had worked too hard at parenting to miss out on the best years with my three daughters.

During my empty nest process I would come to realize that a new season would require so much more from me both mentally & physically. I would learn how to recapture my own story, ditch the desk job and find what I really loved doing, schedule three unplanned bionic leg surgeries, learn to love myself completely, and become a ski coach in the Pacific northwest.

Now our snow storms and life challenges look different. I’ve pivoted into the son-in-law (SILs) and grand kid season.

Having three daughters that once preached they would never marry or have kids now marrying and having kids around the same time.

Current status (all we can do is laugh out loud!): our ‘26/’27 family decision maker’s are the 3 & 5yr olds of our nest. They are power turners and keep us on our toes! I love watching them learning to pivot as we take on new life lessons together.

No shocker here when I say that I’ve found my empty nest life to be similar to my younger years as a single mom. Life hasn’t stopped being messy and turns and pivoting are required if not fundamental. There are still times when I feel like I’m doing everything backward.

Why?! Because you are more likely to find me coaching a gaggle of kids in a blizzard, hot springs hopping as I drive to Alaska to visit my youngest and her family, working online from a ski resort, recording “story time with Gigi Bear” to the Tonies box, sweating it out in a Halloween costume in Arizona with the rest of my grands, or taking over one of my SILs kitchen to make a big holiday turkey. And all the adult mom & daughter coffee, brunch and pedicure time we’re able to squeeze in between!

Did I mention that coffee in the mountains tastes great too!

The other part of my heart continues to enjoy coaching women and empty nester moms down steep slopes, through new dreams & tough turns, stopping to look backwards only long enough to celebrate their wins.