Category: Family Life

About 6 weeks after we started potty training with Doodle, we headed to Disney for the weekend.  He was doing awesome with the pee part (though pooing has been a struggle) so we weren’t really …

When Sugarplum was born, my water broke at 3:30 in the morning.  I called the midwives and even though I wasn’t having strong contractions, I’d been having regular contractions for hours so they told me …

It seems these days that being a mommy is just too much for many of us. Motherhood has become exhausting, overwhelming, at times unbearable. We find ourselves doing it all, most of the time on our …

When my first daughter was a baby, I didn’t want people to hold her while she slept because I was in school and working and needed her to sleep on her own in her bed.  …

Last year we were invited to attend the Day Out with Thomas Event at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum in Miami. To say we had a fantastic time at the Day Out with Thomas event …

This has been floating around my Facebook feed for a while and I’ve loved seeing all the answers from my friends’ kids.  Here’s what my kids had to say: Honeybun, 7 years old Sugarplum, 5 years …

The flu overtook our house last week, no soul was spared.  After days upon days of meeting my children’s constant needs, after nights of temperature checks, fighting taking medicine, frequent nursing sessions and ER visits, we’ve …

When it comes to our kids, I’ve always been the rule maker.  Sure, I ask for my husband’s opinion but generally I make the final call.  Because I’m the mom. Not because I grew and …

I could ask for a lot of things that would make my life a lot easier and less stressful: a real vacation, a nanny, a housekeeper, a personal chef, a grocery delivery service like we used …

“Set up a solid bedtime routine,” everyone says.  “It will help the baby sleep,” they say.  “Routines help kids know what’s coming so bedtime will go smoother,” they say. And they’re right.  As usual, conventional …