39 Awesome, Inexpensive, or Free Summer Activities for Kids
This shop is sponsored by Kohl’s. All opinions are my own. I'm so glad there are so many summer activities…
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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…
Top 10 Family and Food Blog Posts of 2014
A lot has changed this year. Two biggies---my daughter Giada was born and we left California and moved back 'home'. My…
When to Stop Whole Milk for Toddlers
I’m a rule follower by nature. When Rocco turned one, I immediately switched him to whole milk, per the American…
Do Parents of High Needs Babies Harbor Resentment?
Do parents treat their high needs babies differently when they are older? Do the early years with a difficult baby…