Tag: children

One of the best parts of living in a small town has got to be the ease to get involved in everything. I'm a service-driven...

For all the smugness of a household with married parents, we can really learn something from our divorced counterparts. I had this revelation recently...

Whether you are a full-time stay-at-home mom, a full-time working mother, or the the double whammy of the part-time working mom/who’s still in charge...

Sometimes life slaps you upside the head and reminds you what is really important. That happened one year ago in our family. It was...

10 years ago no one called me mom. 10 years ago I didn't yet know about you--little one (now not so little)--who made me a...

The kids are back in school and I am, for the second year in a row, happy to see them go. My youngest started...

I had no idea when I gave birth to my first child as a naive 24 year old that moms were the toughest of...

Let’s talk about one of the weirdest universal truths of parenthood: kid math. I am not talking about some new addition strategy your elementary...

My son has slept in his own toddler-sized bed the last two nights. This might not seem like such a monumental achievement. After all, he...

Yep, we are “that” family. That family that you see in public and wonder how much we spend on groceries. We are the family...

Are you looking for something to warm your soul this bitter old man winter? I am hands down the Soup Queen during the winter months!...

My family doesn't need any gifts of things take up more space. Does yours? We don't need more marbles or marble runs (the things...