Ages + Stages

This last year with the pandemic and virtual learning has been overwhelming. And I suspect there are some parents who are realizing their child has fallen behind. Maybe they have begun to wonder if they should hold their child...

If you show up to my house unannounced there is a 99.9% chance that you would encounter un-flushed pee in my toilet and an unimaginable amount of fingerprints on my windows. Yes, unfortunately, my children constantly forget to flush the...

Archetypes and Deciding Who We Are It all started with The Babysitters’ Club for me.  This was the broadest and most obvious group of archetypal girls that every reader could likely relate to in one way or another, or at...

One winter break my husband and I taught my two daughters how to ride bikes.   It was actually their Christmas present. Several years back I tried to teach them how to ride. It was an epic fail!! We managed...

Ten years ago my first born came into this world, the cutest and squishiest bundle of love. Just months after he was born we fell into a tradition of taking a walk every night after dinner.  It wasn’t a...

If you are a parent, chances are you have LEGOS. And chances are if you have LEGOS, they are freaking EVERYWHERE! And what about all the different sets that we try to keep together so the kids can build...

In our house, the Easter Bunny always comes to visit each Easter. It is always so exciting to dye the hard boiled eggs and get down the girl's special Easter baskets. At one point my daughter even wrote a...

Sensational Spring Projects The sun is glowing, and the days are longer. Spring sings the joyful melodies, the showers and shines, of our early seasonal shift. The fleeting rains of March are starting to bloom in colorful arrays like rainbows.Easter,...

The beauty of being a mom is that we all have our own style and technique when it comes to raising children. I’m sure every parent has said at one time or another I wish there was a manual...

Would you call yourself Tech Savvy? Navigating technology is a challenge and if it is a challenge for me, then how much more challenging must it be for my kids? I don't even know where to begin with navigating...