Parenthood

This week on the blog – in conjunction with The Breastfeeding Shop – we are thrilled to run a series of posts on breastfeeding in honor of World Breastfeeding Week. World Breastfeeding Week started August 1st and runs through...

It’s time for the kids to bounce off the walls, slide on the floor, and hang off the ceiling, but they can’t jump on the couch. It’s gone. The moving truck just left, taking with it all of your...

I am currently pregnant with our second child. We have yet to find out the sex of the baby, but we are really 50/50 about what we are hoping for; we can see the positives of either. We already...

As moms in the military community, it's important to educate ourselves on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). If left unchecked or untreated, it can potentially lead to substance abuse, violent behavior, or suicide. What is PTSD? Everyone has painful memories, right? But not...

I've been secretly watching my preteen a little closer lately- not because she's bad. In fact, quite the opposite. She is young, impressionable, and naive as many "good girls" are. She is the teacher's pet; the overachieving hard worker...

How do I get my 4-year-old to stop screaming? A friend of mine posted this question on social media recently. The response she received was a compilation of tried and true suggestions from other seasoned mamas. Solutions such as "ignore...

"Because getting there is half the fun. You know that." -- Clark W. Griswold (National Lampoon's Vacation) Sometimes I feel like this quote from one of my favorite movies should really say, "Getting there is half the work ..." When it...

Motherhood is one big learning curve. Every day – no, every hour – there is a new lesson to be learned. I am eight weeks into raising my first. Welcoming Joshua Charles into this world has been the wildest...

I have always been a television person. I lack the attention span to sit down for hours watching movies, but give me entire seasons of shows that I view watch in thirty-minute increments, and I am a happy camper....

By some miracle, the house is quiet. My daughter sleeps hard as the shades in her windows block out the afternoon sun. In the room next door, I hold my son close, dancing him to sleep while Audrey Hepburn...

When I was six years old, my family moved two blocks. It was such a short move that the movers propped one side of our swing set on the backside of the open moving van while my dad and...

Thanks to our three daughters, my husband and I feel like we live in a pink world: a world filled with the musings of a certain British-accented porcine princess, fairies, ponies, and the like. While I enjoy existing in...