Packing Healthy Lunches
There's nothing worse than the sinking feeling you get when your kids come home from school and empty out their backpacks and lunchboxes and you find that they didn't eat the food that you lovingly packed for them that day! …
Being a “Good Enough” Mom
So I watched the movie Bad Moms last night. I howled with laughter at the ridiculous but somehow accurate portrayal of what it feels and looks like to be a “good” mom in this day and age. The running around…
Experiencing Life and Death
Our family had to say goodbye to our eleven-year-old dog, Lucy, this past week and it was way harder than I expected it to be. Lucy was our first and only family pet and Joe and I got her just…
Free-Range Boys
Over the past two summers, our boys have been at an age where all three of them were mobile and active and had a lot of energy to burn on those long summer days. Even the youngest one at age…
Dropping the ball…Ben’s haircut
Lest our posts give the impression that nothing ever goes wrong around in our house, here is one of my more humbling stories from a recent weekend that I spent with the boys that ended in anguish, misery, and some parenting lessons re-learned. Over the weekend,…
My Adventures During "All-Boy-Week"
To follow in our week of "firsts", this is also my first official blog post. It feels a little weird, but here we go! So as Maria said in her post, I took off last week from work to stay home…
New Beginnings
Well, after almost five full days of uninterrupted thinking and planning and some serious soul-searching, I am feeling strong and energetic and ready to handle anything that comes next! I am still a little bit anxious to know what day-to-day life…