Entertainment
Last Minute Valentine’s Day Cards: FREE Printable
Forget about that classroom Valentine’s Day party for your kid? I’ve been there and done that so I made my own printable Valentine’s Day cards for my kids to pass out.
Motherhood
How to road trip with a newborn this holiday season.
There are affiliate links in this blog post. My son’s first Christmas was the worse Christmas I ever had. He was less than eight weeks old, nursing every hour and a half and I was far away from my family. I also was a novice breastfeeder and he had a Read more…
Encouragement
Help me remember that I am still the woman you fell in love with.
Featured on Huffington Post Parents and Good News. You may not realize this, but I finish most days feeling like an emotional punching bag for our tween, a complete life-ruiner to our five-year-old because I made him clean up his Lego mess and a literal punching bag to our dear toddler Read more…
Parenting
What is Flat Head Syndrome?
What exactly is flat head syndrome? Flat head syndrome or positional plagiocephaly happens when a flat spot begins to develop on the back or the side of a baby’s head. A common cause of flat head syndrome is lying an infant in the same position every time they go to Read more…
Featured
Screen-Free Activities to Keep Busy on a Road Trip
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have a problem with screens when you’re traveling with kids. Traveling is less painful now than it was when I was a kid (and suddenly I sound like a 70-year-old) with all the portable devices we can easily access for entertainment. Even with screens, Read more…
Motherhood
To the Exclusively Pumping Mama: A Standing Ovation
I have to write this out, say it out loud and applaud a few special moms living day in and day out the way we all do. Only, they do it differently than I ever did. How? Why am I feeling like giving every single one of these mothers a Read more…
health
5 Easy Family Resolutions – Time to Be Healthy (+ FREE Printable)
It’s difficult to teach our children the importance of healthy eating without turning them into obsessive calorie counters. That’s not counterproductive which is why I love the program Red Light Green Light Eat Right. It’s revolutionary and focuses on the right kind of food you could be eating; not the Read more…
Words of Encouragement
Words of Encouragement: What is the motivation behind your desires?
Sometimes I’m inspired to write something but I don’t have a computer with me nor do I feel like writing an entire blog post. Still, it’s like I have to get this thought out of my mind and onto “paper” because it escapes. I’ve been posting these random messages of Read more…
Featured
Here’s everything you wanted to know about your child’s common cold.
I swear, from November until April, at least one of my children has a running nose, green boogers and a chesty cough that just won’t go away. My middle child seems to always have something going on and it started to kind of concern me. What is normal when it Read more…
Toddler
Five products toddlers need to aid sleep because if that toddler isn’t sleeping you’ll be miserable
Just when you think you have it all together, your sweet little baby is now a toddler. Toddler sleep, while you may think is not as important as baby sleep, you’ll find that it’s still just as important as it was when your fiesty threenager was just a little two-month-old. Read more…
