I hear her make sweet coos at 7-month-old Rhett and race to his rescue at any cry. I see her look at the world with wonder and awe. I can feel her warmth when she comforts Emma in times of frustration or pain. And I sense her curiosity for everything from cooking to collecting bugs….
The tiny little people I call my children make me feel so alive and yet the experience of raising them in the early years has sucked the life right out of me. Four long years of raising kids without a village and I learned to suffer in relative silence, simply hoping for a bit of…
My third child was born with teeth. They were two little daggers waiting to see what damage they could do on me. And knowing the pain of both the newborn stage and the horrors of a biting baby while trying to breastfeeding, my blood ran cold just at the sight of them. Breastfeeding is hard…
In a last ditch effort to find a way to get dinner on the table while working from home and going crazy trying to “do it all” I bought my first Instant Pot. Which quickly turned to collecting all the accessories and even buying a second, larger pot for our family. Learn more about your…
There was a sudden surge of running, bouncing, and peering up on the bed. It was 6:30 am and our dog Samson seemed to be going crazy. That or he was celebrating with us because in the few minutes previous, I gave birth to Rhett. While preparing for a baby, we addressed this, but because…
In case you haven’t heard, but you probably have, there will be a major total solar eclipse this year on April 8, 2024 just like the last major one on August 21, 2017. Eclipses of the sun are fairly rare to happen over the same city, but they do happen regularly in different parts of…
Teaching kids how to help with their own discipline isn’t as hard as it might sound. It’s simply a matter of intentional parenting that teaches them important lessons to build character. In fact, my almost-five-year-old has learned to remove herself from situations when she feels her emotions spiraling out of control and has started to self-discipline…
The first time we ever left our oldest with a babysitter, she cried until she fell asleep on the kitchen floor. She was devastated we would ever leave her. But it was our anniversary, she was a toddler, and we hadn’t left the house on a date since before she was born. But we sought out…
When we moved to Boston in early 2015, one of the biggest adjustments was to not having central heat and air in our home. It was a sticky, don’t-touch-me, unbearable kind of summer. The kind where it feels like someone is breathing hot breath down your back and you walked out of your house wearing a…
You know how I knew I was pregnant the first time around? Because I couldn’t swallow a pill. Never in my life had I suffered from such a debilitating gag reflex as when I was trying to force myself to down my vitamins. It was like mind games because it was the one time in my…
Long days in the sun, enjoying the swimming pool, and participating in car wash fundraisers are all memories ingrained in my mind from my own childhood. But what followed all of them? Sunburns so bad my skin was bubbled. Weeks of squirming in my own clothes because it would touch a sensitive spot. Layers of…
“This article on athletic hairstyles for girls is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of SoCozy. All ideas and opinions are my own and not edited by the sponsor” Having straight hair, I remember the years long before having kids hoping and dreaming of one day having a little girl with curly blonde…