Parenting

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

Kids ruin everything; and parents will agree wholeheartedly. It doesn’t matter how amazing your kids and how much you love and enjoy them or the fact that you would literally do anything for them in the world. Those little people ruin everything from expensive furniture to expensive shoes to that $70,000 SUV you HAD to […] More

I want to start off by saying I hated, and I mean absolutely hated every single parent who had a child that cried on a plane.  And I’m not even talking kids that cried for hours on end.  Frankly, those are the people I wanted to murder.  I’m talking about even five minutes at a […] More

Being a parent is a tough job, and that’s without trying to attain levels of perfection that are not even remotely plausible. Being perfect is overrated, anyway. It’s actually a lot of stress and it’s not worth it. I’ll tell something that I’ve come to learn over the years. With four kids (almost 7, 4 […] More

Teenagers are difficult in so many ways. For some reason they decide they hate their parents – many of them – and they withdraw. They might become more inclusive, more outgoing, darker and more irritable, meaner, nastier and just plain difficult to understand. Not all teens go through the same phases, but many do. And […] More