We Love Our Senior Pet
This is Stewart. We adopted him from a shelter many years ago. He was our practice child. For many years, he was the fierce defender of our backyard against bunnies and squirrels and other dangerous...
View ArticleThis won’t be my best year ever
I’m a sucker for a clean slate. I get a little thrill when I get to plunge my knife into the creamy peanut butter before anyone else (stop laughing). I love being the first person to dive into a...
View ArticleHow to unwind and chill out when you’re about to lose your cool
If Malcolm Gladwell was right and we need 10,000 hours to get really good at something, I should be a freaking awesome mother by now. I’ve got more than 100,000 hours of parenting under my belt but...
View Article6 Non Fiction Books You Can’t Put Down
I post quite a few children’s reading lists on here. But because I think kids who read have parents who read, every so often it’s fun to talk about what we grown-ups are reading as well. I’m not really...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
I know. It’s August. But when you have school-age kids, the start of the school year actually feels like the start of a new year. It may be in the middle-ish of the calendar, but we’re starting new...
View ArticleFly Fishing My Cares Away
I take the kids to a lot of classes. Piano…swimming…church…band…I’m always ferrying someone somewhere to take a class for something. So it was a nice switch-up for me when I took my own class a few...
View ArticleThe 5 Stages of Road Trips With Kids
We just got back from a glorious spring break trip to California. Four days ago, we were at the beach, yesterday it snowed like a mother and all my kids threatened to move to L.A. as soon as they’re...
View ArticleBack to Running (Again)
I run for a lot of reasons. I run because we live in Colorado, and when I get out my front door and look in almost any direction, I’m amazed by this place. I run because I want to be able to keep up...
View Article6 Steps to End Homework Battles
This is going to come as a shock to you, but sometimes? I fight have spirited discussions with my kids. Mostly about things they don’t wanna do…that I want them to do. For a long time, we’d have these...
View Article5 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Having a New Baby
After bringing home four new little babies, I think I finally know what I’m doing. Actually, we were pretty good after Baby #2. That’s always the way it works, isn’t it? For the first baby, you have...
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