Parenting

It will happen at some point; your child will hit you. He or she will raise a hand and smack you right across the face, the leg, the arm, the stomach – whatever body part is within reach. It happens to all of us, even those of us convinced our kids are not little jerks. […] More

This video is going out to all the dads out there, including myself.   Have you ever had one of those moments where you save one of your kids and it looks like you weren’t even trying?  Like one of those moments that can be deadly for your child but you calmly step into the ring […] More

I love sports. I live in the south (okay, Florida, but same thing) and sports are a part of life down here. I grew up participating in cheerleading, gymnastics, softball, volleyball and several other sports, and I love all sports in general. My husband played baseball and he loves football, so our kids will be […] More

Toddlers; they’re kind of evil, really cute and very hard to be mad at in comparison to tweens. For example, when my then 3-year-old overheard the contractors working on our bathrooms using language that began with an “F” and ended with a “You” and promptly repeated it to us, we were torn as to whether […] More

My husband and I were celebrating my birthday in Hawaii back in 2007 when he looked at me in a champagne-haze and uttered the phrase, “I’m so happy with you, but if you woke up tomorrow and said you wanted to have a baby with me, I’d be so happy.” What a waste of a […] More

School started for my kids last week and it was the best week of my life. Okay, not the best week of my life, but pretty darn close. It was, however, the best week of my 1-year-old twin’s lives. They are blissfully free of the over-abundance of sometimes painful and questionable “love” given to them […] More

My little girl, my second little love, began VPK this year. She’s four-and-a-half, and she’s spunky. She’s exceptionally stubborn, she likes things done very precisely and she is not a fan of change. No, that’s not truthful of me. She hates change. If she catches me with her bedroom furniture moved so that I can […] More

I’m just going to come right out and say it; kids are kind of dumb. It never ceases to amaze me how little tiny humans can be so intelligent and insightful and yet still so stupid. I mean, really; it’s kind of embarrassing. For example, my best friend/cousin-in-law and I walk each night around the […] More

Parents are known for being a bit on a crazy side. It’s all right; it’s something we have to learn to embrace as we learn more about parenting and become more comfortable in this particular role of ours. If you asked me a little over 7 years ago whether or not I’d pick a booger […] More

Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, is one of the most talked about people of the year. Here you have a man who, late in his life, has decided he would come out to the world as a transgender personality. He has spent his entire life fathering children, married to women and assuming the […] More

Hugs, kisses and waves; and then you’re out and the kids are the babysitter’s problem. Or maybe your kid cries a lot when you leave thanks to that evil separation anxiety thing, and you have to sneak out while he or she is eating the cookies you gave him so that you can forgo the […] More

I remember my mother expressing her anger to me in this manner growing up. Don’t get me wrong, I was a good kid. I was an athlete, a star student and I rarely did anything worth getting in trouble over. I did, however, have a bit of an attitude. Of course, what teenage girl doesn’t?  […] More