The year following the birth of a baby must have its own name and its own set of expectations. In my family, it is known as The Baby Year. (Capitalized, revered, and always uttered with a touch of fear.) Each time my husband and I went through a Baby Year, we overcame the guilt, rationalized […]
Time: Who Knows? Date: Sometime between New Year’s Day and Spring Break Currently . . . Reading: This article about how screen time before bed is a horrible atrocity, while my kids have their nightly 30 minutes of screen time before bed. Also Reading: The end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, to make […]
We’ve all been there. That moment when you are finally starting to feel like you’ve got this parenting thing under control and BAM! Something happens that knocks you off your pedestal and reminds you that parenting is a giant amusement park ride, and sometimes you end up upside down and backwards. For example, the following […]
My daughter is many things: smart, frustrating, beautiful, exhausting, snarky, genuine, honest, loving… and hilarious. The things that come out of that girl’s mouth just crack me up. There will be times that she is being both so incredibly naughty and so incredibly funny that her father and I will have to bite our cheeks […]
For nine months we dream about what our babies will look like. What traits will we share. For me? I scoffed when my husband stated with absolute certainty during my first pregnancy that our daughter would have blonde hair and blue eyes. Sure, my husband was a toe-head growing up, but I came from a […]
New parents these days are bombarded with information about raising children. From bottles to breasts, cribs to co-sleeping, and organic homegrown to processed store-bought, the choices and guidelines are endless. My husband and I have two small children and have been parents for 3.5 entire years; obviously, we are now experts. We have also come […]
Those of you who follow the blog may remember a recent post I did called Midnight Call Into Darkness. Basically an overview of how stressed I was feeling dealing with an almost three year old. I know many of you are right there with me with your own little threenagers. One day, not too long […]
