Sweating the Small Stuff: Mini Resolutions to Make a Difference in a New Year
Going Small with New Year’s Resolutions It’s often the smallest of things that can make a biggest difference. If you feel overwhelmed by the thought of big, gargantuan-sized goals for 2017, think small. Small Resolutions, Big Impact 1. In my continued...
23 Skills Children Can Learn From the Simple Pleasures of Fall
Fall brings new energy. Maybe it’s the variety that comes with a change in season, or the renewal that blows in with a slightly chilled air. But the change brings new opportunities for family experiences (and a little natural education). Use the time before...
Summer’s On: 19 Ideas and Activities for the First Few Weeks
So, what will your children do this summer? Are you, like me, working out the balance between summer structure and summer spontaneity? VBS day camps summer schedule no schedule routine no routine how much routine summer school Learning activities that will...
Unconventional Advice for Graduates: 4 Tips for Life and Work
Dear Young Adult, If you are a 2019 college or high school graduate, you have probably received a fair dose of unsolicited advice for embarking on your next journey/adventure/season of life. I’m about to give you more. Adults like me say things like...
An Open Letter to My Self at the Start of a New School Year
Dear Self, Settle down. This first week of school (known by some as the end of summer), your boys make their way in a languid state down the stairs to the kitchen and stand confused like little zombies smack dab in your brisk walking path. They stare listlessly into...
In Ardent Observation of Cell Phone Courtesy Month
Etiquette for Mobile Phones You didn’t think I was going to let Cell Phone Courtesy Month 2019 slip away without bestowing upon the digital webs my cell phone/mobile phone courtesy rant pleas rules, did you? Be Smarter Than the Smartphone, People Do not...
Keep it Moving: An Open Letter to my Kids about Summer
Dear Boys, Happy (almost) summer 2019 to you! You boys are already talking about summer. I gotta say, I am always ready for the next season. I wish for us lots of fun and a (somewhat) schedule-free few months. I’m looking forward to our vacations and trips and...
I Am The Mom
{photo credit: me | cake credit: me | inspiration for cake: a fab, fab recipe with a cake that was altogether more put together than the one above. I think this woman knows how to make cakes.} This is the Mom I Am I am not the mom who has shown up to eat lunches with...
This Has Been Brought to You by a Free-Range Mom Moment
What are your Free-Range/Helicopter Parent moments? You first, I hear you say. Who, me? I can helicopter parent with the best of them. I am vigilant (some might say ridiculously so) when it comes to video games (we don’t own any) and computer game sites (just so...Welcome Aboard!
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