Parenting

First and foremost, and travel that includes your children is automatically classified as a trip and not a vacation. Vacation is an escape from the everyday reality of life, and kids are the biggest reality in life. Love them and adore them, but they don’t magically become perfect and self-sufficient little angels the moment you […] More

There comes a moment in the life of every parent in which that gorgeous new baby wants to try something a bit sour. It happens to all of us. For some, it’s the lime wedged into a rum and diet at a Mexican chain restaurant (witnessed by yours truly). For others, it’s the slice of […] More

There are many, many mysteries of the parenting universe, the majority of which involve things our children say and do. These are some of the key things about kids that perpetually stump, perplex, and utterly confuse moms.  And while mothers are great at keeping a straight face, there are simply some questions that you have to smile at.  Some […] More

Graduations are a big deal in any household, but typically only when students graduate from high school and/or college. Even kids that graduate from VPK are celebrated more often than other graduates, but that leads me to discuss something that came up recently at our weekly dinner with our best friends. Their son graduated from […] More

If you’ve never seen “Parenthood,” you’re definitely missing out. By far one of the best movies that has anything to do with, well, parenting, it’s a must see for all who are thinking of having kids or already have kids. Actually, now that I think about it, I wonder why it’s not a requirement that […] More

It’s summer vacation in my house, and what that means for my two oldest children is that they’re bored and I’m forced to listen to it. We’re not always mobile since we do have two 1-year-old twins that nap for about four hours from late morning to mid-afternoon (also, I’m alone with four kids while […] More

There is nothing as infuriating as a smiling 3-year-old holding up a new pair of underpants and the baby wipes and saying, “I’m poopy. Will you change me please?” After all, a child who can literally tell you that she went potty in her pants, carry on a full conversation and dress herself on a […] More

We’re all parents and we have to face the truth.  As much as we are in love with our children, there’s no time of day that’s better than when your little one finally shuts their eyes and gives you the rest of the night off.  Does that make us bad parents?  Certainly not.  Let me […] More

You wait nine-ish months for the arrival of your new little bundle of joy (with increasing impatience and a sudden lack of humor) but when your new bundle is born, you hesitate before touching him or her. I mean, the baby is covered in your bodily fluids – and it’s gross. We all take the […] More

If there is one thing that all parents are guilty of at times, it’s suffocating our kids. Even with our oldest being only 6, we can see it from time to time in her eyes and hear it in her words that we’re suffocating her, and we know we have to reign it in. But […] More

Having a new baby home during the summer months is both a blessing and a curse. It’s a blessing because it means you’re not still pregnant and miserable in the heat of the summer, but it’s a curse because it means you now have to worry about whether or not your new little one is […] More

Parenting; it’s the same concept with a completely different perspective. What do I mean? I mean that all parents have the same general goal in mind; keep kids alive, healthy, relatively happy and turn them into good, successful people. Now, those individual things have different meanings to all people. For some, success is a general […] More