How to Get Rid of Head Lice
Chances are if you found this post, you googled “how to get rid of lice”. And if you suspect lice might be a reality for yourself or your child, you are probably freaking out right about now. Let…
5 Mealtime Sanity Savers
Post by Contributing Writer Amy “Sit down, please.” “No spitting out food!” “Eat two more bites of broccoli and then you can have applesauce.” Our meals used to involve negotiations around what and how much my toddlers…
Road Trips: Why Our Kids Watch Unlimited TV in the Car
It’s nearly road trip season and more often than not, one of my favorite parts of vacation is the time we spend in the car. Yes, in the car. After eight years of parenting (and multiple attempts to keep…
Back to School Date Tradition
Do you have any back to school traditions? My mom used to take each of us to go shopping and eat lunch before school started every year. There were five of us, so having one-on-one time with my mom was…
Sleeping Solutions for Summertime
It’s nearly summer…which means the sun is shining early and late. Although this is wonderful for plants and trees…it is often not great for getting your kids to go to bed (and stay there). What kid wants to go…
The Lazy Mom’s Guide to Doing Laundry
One thing that irritates me more than anything is washing and matching socks. A sock inevitably gets lost. It takes a million years for me to “triple roll” all those socks. I can’t differentiate one boy’s socks from another,…
Our New School/Craft Supply Organization
Organization is apparently not my thing. Try as I might, I just can’t seem to stay organized! This presents an assortment of complications, one of them being I can never find what I’m looking for. This is especially true for…
Journal of Letters
I didn’t intend to start a journal for each of the boys. It actually came about on whim (as with many things in my life). When I found out I was pregnant with Big Brother, I was in shock. We hadn’t…
What Works for Us: Coping when your spouse is away on business
For our first four years of marriage, Prince Charming and I were apart one night. Just one. And that one night was torture! Big Brother had just turned one-year old when Prince Charming took a new job…a job that required…
What Works for Us: A Day in the Life
A sweet reader requested I do a post on “a day in the life”. Our daily routine is not really interesting enough to even mention…but hopefully the pictures make it a little more fun. :) Big Brother typically wakes up between 7 and 7:30….
What Works for Us: Potty Training (join in the discussion)
Let me start this post off by saying I AM NOT AN EXPERT (in any area–but especially this one). I’ve only successfully potty-trained 1 child in my life…and that came with a major failure 6 months prior! I’d really like for you…
What Works for Us: Welcoming a New Sibling
When I was pregnant with Little Brother, I was terrified that our little family would be turned upside down and never be the same. I didn’t want my relationship with Big Brother to change. I was scared that I wouldn’t…