Advice to My Daughters about Work

Will you encourage your daughters to make the same choices you made?

Please Try to Be Very Quiet and Still

Read: 5 Things You Can Do to Make a Difference Like most of us, I cannot get the tragic events of last week’s mass school shooting off my mind. To be one of those families that lost a loved one is unfathomable. My 10 and 12 year old understood full well the horror of what happened. Both […]

Heart-Shaped Pancakes for My Valentine’s Day Breakfast Tradition

Like an idiot, years ago I started a Valentine’s Day tradition of making a huge heart day breakfast for the kids, complete with champagne glasses, red berries, candy (don’t judge me), gifts and heart-shaped pancakes. (Check out our pumpkin and gluten-free pancake recipes.) If you are a newish mom reading this, just remember, kids LOVE tradition so be careful […]

Little Kids are Hard!

I’m on a plane writing this, and there is a baby one row up and to the right of me. He’s a little guy, maybe 5 months young, and I had the same reaction any sane person would have when I saw where he was sitting. Please Dear Lord, God in heaven, all that is […]

Mother Daughter Valentine Spa Party

What a fun way to get to spend time with your friends and daughters. Create a “Spa Night” in your own home. Invite friends and their daughters to a fun night with these cute invitations from Pretti Mini. BYOR = Bring Your Own Robe. Start with a basket of disposable pedicure flip flops. Turn them into glam pedicure […]

A Movie Every Family Should Watch: On the Way to School

I recently watched the most touching movie with my kids: On the Walk to School. It is the inspiring story of 4 children living in different countries and the difficult journeys they make to attend school. The movie reminds us that something we so easily take for granted is considered so precious to people in other parts […]

10+ Things We Are Sick of Seeing

As I was writing this post, I texted a few friends to ask what trends they were sick of. Slime was at the top of the list. But as we continued our lists, I started getting answers like I’m sick of… “my kids” or “carpooling.” And one friends stated she was “SO sick of sex!” While I sympathize, these answers don’t […]

Would You Rather…Give Up Wine or Coffee?

My kids constantly play this game: would you rather? They come up with impossible or totally gross scenarios to choose from and ask their siblings which one would they choose.”Would you rather eat a cow eyeball or lick the floor at Chuckie Cheese?” Last time they played, my daughter who knows me all too well turned […]