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As a mom, I am incredibly grateful for the abundance of resources we have available to us. We have websites and local groups in which we can share our stories and relate to one another. But, what about Dad?...
My last baby. As my youngest child approaches her second birthday, I find myself getting increasingly emotional.
You see, I have three children. Boy Child was born two weeks short of Big Girl's second birthday. Then, when Boy Child was...
Always, the highlight of my day is picking my daughter up from preschool. The whole way there I feel guilty, wishing I had been with her all day.
I miss her laugh and smile and curiosity and am jealous of...
For the first three years of my daughter's life, I was a working, single mom. Life was hard, busy and beautiful. However, I learned quickly that only having one set of hands to take care of the chores just wasn't...
Say it ain't so! School is right around the corner. It's hard to believe, but the countdown to school has begun. Teachers are busy prepping their classrooms and tweaking curriculum maps to make sure that they do all they...
Last fall, my first grader had his first brush with politics during a mock election that his school put on for the 2016 presidential election.
He was so excited! I thought it would be fun, too. Interactive learning is always the best:...
Before having children, I shuttered at the image of kid’s ‘stuff’ spread throughout the house. One-use baby accessories, musical toys playing the same three melodies over and over, burp cloths stained with spit-up thrown on the backs of furniture, snack...
Fellow mamas! Let me let you in on a little secret: school lunches are flipping expensive! We are ballin' on a budget over here in our house, and there is no way we could afford our child to eat...
Today is my 36th birthday. I had grandiose plans of drinking with my friends and having a kid-free dinner – maybe a boat ride at my best friend’s lake house {nice perk, huh?}. Then, this week, my four-year-old son...
