We have all been there… your toddler is tired, cranky, and inconsolable. They are acting up and you’re making excuses for their lack of sleep and deep in your soul you’re feeling depleted, empty, and helpless. Yep. I am there all the time. My toddler hates to sleep for the most part meaning 9 times…
This post has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. But this story of beautiful, messy, wonderful, and chaotic motherhood is mine alone. #SweepTheMess #CollectiveBias Motherhood is hard. It’s stressful. It’s a never-ending job. It seems like every day I wake up and my goal is to simply get the mountain of laundry…
Even since my oldest daughter was about four months old, we have tried to parent in a way that elicits critical thinking. Because, for us, it is important that we are raising children to problem solve and not be 100% dependent upon us. And in the end, we have encouraged independence in our toddler and…
I have taken care of two kids, in fact I have babysat somewhere around five at once by myself. I even did as a teenager. But nothing quite prepares you for being a mother and transitioning to two kids. In fact, the season of life when two becomes a reality and the first week comes…
This year is coming to a close and that’s always a great time to reflect on what happened in the previous twelve months! This year was definitely a year for the books in our home in many ways, but most notably I learned so many lessons in motherhood and got a full dose of what life…
My daughter is most definitely a tactile learner. She cannot help but take things apart, build things, and break things. It’s part of who she is and because of that I know that I need to embrace her learning style by giving her ways to not just cope with things like breaking chalk and crayons,…
My daughter has been 2 for three weeks now and it’s as if someone let her know that being two meant acting differently. Literally, it feels like a switch went off in her and now each day contains power struggles, meltdowns, and choices. Lots of choices. In the journey to foster her independence over the…
Deep in my soul I yearn for friends. Real friends. Ones that I see often, that check in on me, that I check in on, and that want to share life with me but understand that seasons of life can dictate my own involvement in their life and vice versa. I long for a village….
November is here and that means that Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and everything in between is here. It means that we will potentially be around family, that we will be stressed, and that there will be a lot to do. So much to do, that many times we fail to find ourselves truly living in…
We have all heard the phrase, especially those who have entered into the realm of parenthood. It’s truly a lesson to live by: “When you know better, you do better”. But what does it mean? Does it mean that we walk around judging others because they don’t “know better”? Does it mean that we have…
Whether your child is an infant, toddler, or teen, they all struggle with venturing into the unknown. They struggle with these HUGE emotions that make them freeze in the moment or break down into a meltdown to end all meltdowns. They happen in public, at family get-togethers, and right when you think things are going…
Oh the blessings of being a Stay-at-home-mom and what a task it can be on a daily basis. And while many have really responded in a positive manner to the recent post “Dear Stay-At-Home-Moms, Please Shut Up“, it’s something that has really rubbed me the wrong way. It sends the wrong message to mothers both…