Category: Family Life

We are well into our cloth diapering journey and while it started out humorously rocky, we’ve now gotten the hang of it and I must say, I’m actually really enjoying it! I started building my …

Thanksgiving morning, I got up off the couch after feeding Pipsqueak to get the girls breakfast and had one of my “episodes.” I haven’t had one in a long time and I don’t know that …

This short week has certainly been a crazy one and it’s showed me one important thing: parenting is all about finding balance. But I’m not talking about balancing parenthood in the traditional sense of making …

I had the grand idea to try potty training with Doodle when we got back from our recent trip.  He’s over 2 1/2 and we call him Mr. Particular because he likes things to be …

All of Beyond Mommying’s posts on Potty Training: Potty Time!  All my best tips based on what I learned as a preschool teacher Pottying Out.  Potty training while out and about Potty Pooper.  Overcoming a …

I’ve written a lot about traveling as a family and most of the time, our trips go well.  We’ve figured out how to make family travel easier and less stressful for our family even as we’ve …

I’m a mommy to four and have been at this parenting thing for over seven years but that certainly doesn’t make me an expert.  I definitely don’t have all the answers and I am by …

Before After   Our other hair adventures: Doodle’s first haircut, Sugarplum’s first hair cut, when I donated my hair and the time Sugarplum cut her own hair (and I had to fix it!)

You take the kids out to a quick lunch after shoe shopping because you realized when packing for your trip tomorrow that neither of your daughters has cold-appropriate shoes to take and as you pull …