Parenting Advice

If you are looking for recommendations for baby items, check out part one of this series. As your baby nears his first birthday (which seems to happen too fast!), he's grown so much from his newborn days, and now you...

All marriages have their fair share of problems, and our marriage has not always been rainbows and unicorn farts. Imagine a marriage, buying your first home, 2 career changes, and a surprise pregnancy. Any one of those things alone...

I have a friend that is a vegetarian, but I never see her eat salads. A few years ago when I became plant based, I just assumed that I would be eating tons of salad….boy, was I narrow minded....

I don’t know a mom who isn’t overworked, underpaid, over scheduled, and overwhelmed. Whether we work in the home or out of it, we don’t clock out at 5. Even if we have a partner, the work never stops. Between...

It's not just a participation trophy. When you look up the word participation, here is the definition. par·tic·i·pa·tion noun 1. the action of taking part in something. Synonyms: Involvement, contribution. With Spring sports right around the corner, lots of posts begin to flood social media...

My son, Levi, is approaching his fifth birthday, and I’ve been thinking recently about what I want to communicate to him as he grows older. There’s a lot. The thing is, I remember being a kid, and things my...

I am a mom of a 3-year old and have a full-time job. A remote full-time job. Which means, I work from home. I'm a working stay at home mom, if you want.   But to be honest, about two to...

Life moves sooo fast, and the faster it goes the quicker it seems that our big moments pass too. With the increased use of technology in our daily lives, we tend to take more pictures, telling ourselves it will...

I didn’t want to have my baby. This is something that would sound shocking for anyone who knows me personally. My pregnancy was a surprise, but my husband and I knew that we wanted kids. We just weren’t really...

I used to have these fantasies of what marriage would look like. In all honesty, what little girl doesn’t? We imagine this white picket fence, the family dog, 2.5 kids. I remember thinking “If I can just meet ‘the...