If you have been on Pinterest for any length of time, you have seen the different seasonal bucket lists floating around. I, myself, try to do a Summer Bucket List and a Super Summer Challenge with my own kids. One of my besties has an amazing list of things her kids can choose to do […]
I am nearly 42, well educated, married, a mother of 2, and somewhere in the middle class. I say this so when I make my next confession, you will not pass it off as the ramblings of a naive teenager. I LOVE. JUSTIN. TIMBERLAKE. I’ve loved him longer than I’ve loved my children. I’ve loved […]
“Sun’s out, fun’s out.” “Sun’s out, guns out.” “Sun’s out, buns out.” That last one sends shivers down my spine. Of all the places I want my buns, “out” is probably last on the list. Spring, and with it warm temperatures, brings revived commitments to health and wellness. Self included, most of us have […]
You’re a mom. You’re tired. Here’s why. Your kids get up before the crack of dawn. Your baby isn’t sleeping through the night. You stayed up too late reading because your book was just that good. You stayed up too late watching trashy TV. You stayed up too late looking at pictures of your kids […]
New mom? New-to-the-QC mom? Whether you’re having your first kiddo or you’re a newbie to the QC, it can be daunting to find the local favorite mommy spots. You can’t just Google, “best places in the QC for moms and kids but not ones that everyone knows about because those are usually bonkers […]
Despite what the title might seem to insinuate, Date Night over the 7 years of our marriage has come to signify so much more than romance. Maybe we’re just not great multi-taskers but it really does take some serious one on one time for these two crazies to connect. Without a regular date, our […]
So, my husband and I did a thing. We flew to Honduras for a Medical Brigade through a Christian non-profit called HOPE Worldwide. Super honesty time- I was not excited before we left. My stomach was in anxious knots about leaving my daughter for 5-ish days. I was way too stressed about getting Zika and […]
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I see you. I see you waking up in the middle of the night. I see you cleaning up that puke over here and dosing out tylenol over there. I see you buckling all those kids into the car. Fighting battles day in and day out … to get homework done, enough sleep, fights […]
I heard her screaming as I slowly opened the back door – our 1-year-old currently unimpressed with the idea of bedtime. It was 10 pm Thursday and clearly her dad was reinforcing the “cry it out method.” I went into mom-mode, quickly slipped off my Adidas sneakers, took off my blazer and hustled up the […]
I get the impression a lot that many of you think you don’t know what you’re doing with this mothering gig. I also often hear that many people think that I’m some kind of expert, judged solely on the basis that I have six kids. I thought it might be beneficial if you could hear […]
Each Christmas we buy/receive a few gifts that end up being a bit of a disappointment, but there are always some amazing winners. Here are the best ones for this year: Build-a-Beat Stacker Ages 1-3 I’ll admit, we actually got this in July for our 1 year old, but this toy has been really […]
