Parenting

As we enter this holiday season, I’ve decided to rid myself of toxicity. I’m taking time to cleanse, heal, and refresh. But before I can head into this new season, I have some confessions to make about...

Whether you snapped at your kid or made a mistake, there is mom guilt. Little things, big things, things in or out of our control, there is always mom guilt. Earlier this month, my daughter broke her arm and...

I am on the verge of a whole new world. For the entirety of my adult life, I have been parenting little ones. I never thought I would see the end of diapers and pull ups, irrational temper tantrums,...

  If someone had told me that my children, ages one and 10 would not always get along, I wouldn't have believed them. What could there possibly be to argue about? Being 10 years younger than my brother, I believed...

The year my second child was born, life threw us some curveballs. That year included selling and buying of homes, an out of state move, career changes, and more. All of this was easily taking away my focus from...

Like everyone else on New Year's Eve, I was excited to usher in 2020. This was going to be my year. The year I finally caught up and kept the house clean. The year that I got to work...

I went to college to be a teacher. I was heavily influenced by teachers throughout my childhood, and it seemed logical to follow in those footsteps. Through a variety of twists and turns, my calling in life has shifted...

I want to talk about a situation I had with my six-year-old daughter the other today. After picking her up from camp, she was standing in our driveway in her new StitchFix jumper and tennis shoes. Her messy hair...

As we wander as weary travelers into this next phase of our Coronavirus lives as parents, I can’t help but feel upended. On some days, I am a fly by the seat of my pants mom. I love adventures,...

“It’s been a complete dumpster fire,” I said to my husband when he called at 4pm on our first day of homeschool, year 2020.  The truest lesson I have learned from three years of homeschooling is to expect nothing more...