This past week we went to Zion National Park for a family vacation. It was beautiful and exhausting, all at the same time. I think the best piece of advice I can offer for traveling with small children is to have very low expectations of what you’ll do while on your trip and be very […]
Daily Ramblings
To that nasty woman in the grocery store: If I’d not been so shocked, I’d have opened my rather opinionated mouth and let you have a piece of my mind. However, I was having trouble even believing what I witnessed. You yelled at my little girl and called her “you little brat” then had the […]
Sometimes we as parents and caregivers can become too wrapped up in trying to schedule and plan the days and activities for kids. While it is very important to develop routines and keep to them in order to help children feel comfortable and secure in their environment, over planning and dictating the learning can have […]
Today I’m handing the reigns over to Amy McCready of Positive Parenting Solutions. She ran the webinar I hosted last week and I get her regular e-mail newsletters that keep me on track with positive discipline. This one is a particularly touchy subject and when I got her advice, I asked her if I could […]
This week the trees are really in bloom and the pink magnolia in my front yard has had Sweetness in awe as it begins to bloom. It’s the first year she’s really noticing the changes in seasons and it’s like watching them for the first time again through her eyes. Mr. Man’s vocabulary is taking […]
I feel like a boob. A great. Big. Hairy. Boob. You might remember I was laid off the beginning of the year, thrust out of my part-time dream job and into the cold, harsh reality of sudden SAHM life as I dealt with the loss of my professional identity and income. It was a nasty […]
So it was time. My little dude was looking a little shaggy. He sported his own toddler mullet, complete with hair growing over his ears. It was time. So I hauled the little dude into the bathroom, gave him a toothbrush to play with, slapped on an old bib and went to it. Soon delusions […]
