Category: Family Life

I know it’s really still spring but it is May.  Plus, I live in South Florida and anything after March is pretty much summer.  And I love summer nights. I love being able to sit …

Laundry is the bane of my existence.  It has also become my life.  With 3 loads of cloth diapers each week plus kid’s laundry, adult laundry, linens, towels and bathing suits…my washer and dryer it seems …

We are just a few weeks away from our official 1 year anniversary of being in our new house and it’s been a struggle to get everything sorted.  The whole having-a-baby-in-the-middle thing certainly hasn’t helped …

I arrived early to the gym for Sugarplum’s gymnastics class last week.  There weren’t many people there yet and while we waited for her classmates to arrive, I scooped her into my arms.  I lifted …

There are a lot of ideas and concepts in the world that can be hard for kids to comprehend.  We have never been ones to keep much from our kids, we talk about life and …

A few years ago my husband got into the crazy mud races.  He’s the type of guy that likes the running, sweating, working and even the crawling through the mud.  Me, not so much, but …

My girls were born 25 months apart and have always been close.  They get along most of the time, play nicely together (most of the time) and like the same things (most of the time…) …

My 8 Weeks to a Happier Home project (8w2aHaHo) was an endeavor in which I deep cleaned our home, one room at a time over 8 weeks.  Each week I shared my plans for each …

My mommy has always said taking a cruise is a close to a real vacation as a mommy can get.  And I think she’s right. Because really, “vacation” when you’re a mommy just means doing …

Ah, Spring. When the flowers begin to bud and the leaves begin to pop back out on the trees! Unless you live in Florida. And then Spring is when everything dies. And the falling leaves …