Parenting

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

As a former teenager (many more years ago than I care to admit), I understand the simple desire to throw a huge party while your parents are away. Not only does it up your cool factor and make you the person with whom everyone wants to spend time, it also provides a safe place for […] More

Kids;  the only thing in life you try so hard for, wait so long for and then wonder daily why you even bothered. In all seriousness, I love my four littles. They are some of the sweetest kids you’ll ever meet (they get that from daddy) and they are sometimes utterly annoying and embarrassing, and […] More

Boys are not the children with whom I feel most comfortable. As a mother, it’s all about the girls for me. I’ve had girls for going on 7 years. I have three of them, and one of them is the twin to my only little boy and they only just turned one, so the rough […] More

Being a mother is gross work; but I’m happy to say it’s been a lot less gross for me than it’s been for my husband. Let me just knock on wood or something right now and say that there are so many things that have happened to my husband that have yet to happen to […] More

As a mom, I find it difficult to advise anyone to ‘unfriend’ or ‘shun’ another mother. We all have the same issues, no matter how we choose to handle them. Parenting is a road often traveled but rarely navigated precisely and there are so many stops, detours and unexpected delays encountered along the way. Moms […] More

Kids do the darnedest things; sometimes it’s cute and sometimes it’s not. And I think a lot of it has to do with the age and the perspective one has on the situation. For example, it might be cute when your brand new 1-year-old kisses you with her mouth wide open and her tongue out […] More