Soulmates
Parenting a big family can be a tough challenge, but there are certainly a lot of rewards, perhaps even unexpected ones, too.
Parenting a big family can be a tough challenge, but there are certainly a lot of rewards, perhaps even unexpected ones, too.
I finally bought a new car, but is it just a car or the beginning of a bunch of transitions on our way to empty-nest-dom?
As the Summer Olympics approach and the kids are talking about competition, here’s my nighttime ritual to talk to my kids about how amazing I think they are.
Years of trying to send the “food is awesome!” message while my child struggled with anorexia left me unhealthy; now I have to figure out healthy dieting.
Kristen Chase talks about motherhood and marriage regret, and how giving ourselves permission to step outside the box might be the key to personal happiness.
The years will fly by. I know right now you can’t believe that. But I am telling you as I sit on the other side of parenting, eighteen years in, they will.
Sometimes parenting feels extra challenging. Train yourself to find the win in every day situations. Even in the less obvious ones.
Motherhood is full of opportunities to learn important, and not so important, lessons. You might as well laugh through them all.
Halloween seems to have gotten a lot more complicated over the years, and I have mixed feelings about what that means for my teens.
There’s a no-man’s land, I think, in those big-tween/young-teen years, when it comes to summer break. Here’s my current Summer Manifesto for this summer. What’s yours?
It is the time of year when you begin to hear complaints from the kids about their teachers. “My teacher hates me!” Do you step in or let them work it out?
We press on and continue to try having family dinners, but while our dinners are a work in progress, breakfast has become a win!
Parenting, much like clutter, will suck up all of the available space in your life if you let it. Don’t just find your Village, participate in it (without the kids).
In the past week I have had conversations with several people about what age is okay to leave your child home alone. What do you think?
Kids can be picky eaters which can make it hard to feed them healthy foods like fruits and veggies. We have some ideas to help!
What if I told you that the way to get your teenagers to do chores around the house was to use food as motivation? Hear me out.
Our first project involved painting with watered down paint and straws. Using our breath to blow the paint across the page making interesting patterns.
I believe I’ve mentioned once or twice or fourteen-dozen times that my older son became…intensely challenging in the weeks and months right after we brought his baby brother home. He was three years old, and he was AWFUL. I feel like I can call him that because 1) he’s not, anymore, and 2) because he was objectively, literally, monumentally AWFUL.
The reason some parents laughed about the dad who shot his daughter’s laptop is because we all know that parenting teens makes the most sane of us act nuts.
Being a mother to four boys, wife to one husband and owner of one male dog has taught me quite a few things about boys.