Parenting

I often wonder what it would have been like to enjoy the first few months of my third baby's life. Sure, there were cute and wonderful moments we experienced together, but I really struggled. I had a very colicky...

One of the benefits of becoming so Zoom-oriented is realizing that we can connect more often with friends and family who live far away. Need to social distance this holiday season? Just can't make it out to see people?...

Traveling with kids. Sigh. There's good. There's bad. There's ugly. And usually? There's exhausted. If you're anything like me, I don't even call it "vacation" anymore. If the kids are going, it's travel, basically just parenting away from home. And...

The holidays are about food, family, and time spent together. Sometimes that combination can be stressful, with coordinating menus and figuring out which days at what house. Not to mention keeping all of the little people busy so you...

In my opinion, 2021 was just as hard, if not harder, than 2020. We hit the one-year anniversary of the pandemic this past March, and I had a small spiral of discouragement. For me, a self-proclaimed slow learner, 2021...

I was helping my daughter clean her room the other day. More precisely, I was cleaning her room while she lay on the floor moaning about how she has to do all the work herself (#momlife). She eventually picked...

With 10 children, life was not always easy for my parents. As well as the steady hemorrhaging of financial funds just to feed the crew, they were constantly fighting the “need versus want” battle. With seven girls and three...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! There are parties to plan and stockings to stuff and gifts to give...but wait! This is 2021 and we’re still recovering from the after-effects of a major pandemic. The news is flooded...