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Here are the 7 Top Back to School Trends 2017

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9 Age Appropriate Chores for Kids in Preschool You Need to Know

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39 Awesome, Inexpensive, or Free Summer Activities for Kids

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This is What Happens During Our Insane Toddler Bedtime Routine

What is your toddler bedtime routine like? Do you struggle to get your kids to go to bed? No matter…

How to Know if Your Child is Ready for Kindergarten

How do you know if your child is ready for kindergarten? My son turns 5 in October. I’ve been contemplating…

What I’m Thankful For – Thoughts from our California Road Trip

For Thanksgiving, we bravely decided to take our two toddlers on a California road trip. We hadn't seen most of…

7 Things You Need to Bring When Traveling with a Baby

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #SuperAbsorbent #CollectiveBias Traveling with…

A Day of Family Fun at the Phoenix Peach Festival

Can peaches grow in Phoenix? That's the question I asked myself when I heard about the Phoenix Peach Festival. It…

How to Deal with Children Asking Why All the Time

Just a couple weeks ago my son started asking why, why, why for everything! Literally any time we ask him…

Celebrating Mothers Day and My Mom Goals For the Year

This is my 4th Mother’s Day, so I'm thinking about my mom goals for the year. It's still rather hard…

When Toddler Siblings Play Together

Raising Siblings to be Friends Siblings play together, without a parent around, from the beginning, right? Wrong! I had no…

6 Things Parenting Taught Me About Myself

My baby girl just turned two (more on that next week!) and Rocco is already three. I can’t believe I’ve…

9 Things I Want My Child to Know

I was confronted by my own mortality the other day. Long story short, it got me thinking about what would…

Happy Mother’s Day

To all the moms out there---Happy Mother's Day! We all need to take a moment to appreciate the good moments with…