I have small children in my house. I also have big children in my house. Their ages range from seven months to twelve years of age. Unfortunately, that means that there are many different toys for different ages in my house. There are Squinkies, My Little Ponies, Littlest Pet Shop, Barbie’s, John Deere Tractors (which […]
If you were like me after graduating high school, you had your whole life mapped out. It may have gone something like this: go to college, get married, begin motherhood. While life happened, college got rearranged in my life plan, but it was something that was important for me to go back and finish. I knew […]
I can boast a fairly decent list of accomplishments: I shower daily. Chances are good my daughter will eat at least one serving of vegetables each day. I know the entire soundtrack to almost all Disney movies. I can pick the tomatoes out of any meal. I am able to tune out almost any unpleasant […]
Some of you may recognize the title from Game of Thrones: “Mother of Dragons.” Unfortunately, it is not original to me. However, there are days that I feel like it is the perfect description of my role. My oldest daughter is a pre-teen, aka a highly hormonal, extremely opinionated young lady, depending on the day […]
I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy in August of 2015. The first few months I was so overwhelmed by the love, lack of sleep, adrenaline, and sheer amazingness of making a HUMAN BEING, that I was a giant mess of me. I had never known love like this, and with that love came […]
Dear Mom, I know it’s not Mother’s Day, but I wanted to let you know something important, and it cannot wait until next May: You are enough. You’ve told me that you worry about this. That maybe you are not enough. You’ve also told me more times than I can count how proud you are of me […]
We’ve all been there, either standing in the checkout lane with rounded bellies present and accounted for, or in a brightly lit aisle holding our newly minted bundles of joy in our arms. These two visuals seem to immediately attract attention, even if we are as quiet as can be. You know it’s coming. I […]
Do you know how hard it is to wait for something that has a large chance of never happening? And did you know that there is actually something even more excruciating than that? There is no pain deeper then when you have to finally surrender yourself and let go of something you have tried so […]
These last few weeks I’ve spent much of my time scouring the Internet for resources to help my toddler adjust to all the changes beginning within our home. I’ve created several Pinterest board dedicated to all things toddler, everything from how to prepare a toddler for a new baby, to toddler activities, toddler responsibilities, and […]
Reading is a critical part of our children’s development. Reading every day is important, and summer is no exception. Summer is perhaps even more important when many kids don’t have the structure that school provides and time set aside for reading. What can we do to mitigate some of what researchers call the “summer slide” […]
