Parenting

I am a true believer that wherever you find yourself during any typical day, you were meant to be there. I stumbled into a yoga class I don’t normally attend and heard this phrase: “Put on your own oxygen mask before...

My boys are still too young to decipher whether I'm COOL or not, to them, OF COURSE I'm cool! I think it isn't until the teen years that they start realizing I'm not so much.   So while I still have...

It's no secret that my family lives on a pretty strict budget. We are young, still getting established, and just working through these years of living on little! When it comes to summer, I've got a few helpful tips...

I started out as a parent who denounced screen time.  I told friends and family not to buy my child any kind of toys with batteries. I didn’t want to expose her to the world of screens until absolutely...

It’s summertime! A time of slower days, calmer schedules, simpler meals and mornings spent sleeping in…or not if you have kids. I’ve started to realize now that it really doesn’t matter how late my kids go to bed. They...

We moms deserve a break. Whether you stay home or work, we all deal with the same stuff when we are at home. The endless piles of laundry and the never ending task of cleaning up all the toys that...

Summer time is meant to be enjoyed! That's why we're unplugging our laptops and giving our writers a short break to spend time with their families! We'll be taking a short content break from July 3-July 16, 2017; resharing...

There, I said it. When we celebrated 8 years of marriage this May, you struggled with the usual sweet sentiments you write in my card. I found it kind of funny actually, and listen, I DON’T BLAME YOU. It’s no...