Not as safe as you think

Your children are loved in school. Regardless of ability, personality, someone in your child’s school cares deeply about seeing them thrive and become someone who does their best. The problem is that that person may now be with ten students that have greater needs than your child. I worked in a school district last year, and people were spread thin at the school I was at, and I substitute for the same district this year Read more…

Working in my Kids’ School? Zero Stars

Oh, snap! What a year we just had. We began the year blissfully unaware of what was happening in our children’s school. We dropped them off, we picked them up. Largely the end of the story. That’s how it was for a while until I realized our oldest son’s outbursts had gotten bigger and more frequent. I needed work and wanted to be on my kids’ schedule, so I took up substitute teaching. My kids’ Read more…

Turkey Pot Pie and Vegan Turkey Pot Pie

Turkey Pot Pie is one of the most comforting foods of all, and its party where all of the best ingredients are invited. I’m vegan, so there’s a vegan option that wont leave you missing the meat, and a meat option which is a perfect recipe for those Thanksgiving and any Turkey dinner leftovers. You can make this as a full pie or in crocks for individual meals (our preference), and its a single layer Read more…

Increase SEO with WordPress

Fully learning SEO involves a lot of learning, I took an eCourse online through Coursera and it was free and awesome, and I learned a lot, but I’ve got you covered on some basics! There are four essential components in SEO. These can be broken up into further bullet points, which I will do for you here. I will touch on each of these in hopefully enough detail to get you off to an awesome Read more…

Favorite Things… May 2023

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A Different Life

Alex and I have been together for over eight years. I was telling him a story this morning, I can’t remember what about… nothing terribly memorable apparently… and it was about something random that happened right before we met… I told him it seemed like a different life, and in all his wisdom, he said it was because that was a different life. Both of us had our own, very solo lives before we formed Read more…

Our road to ADHD Diagnosis

Our seven-year-old has had behavioral and learning issues since around 18 months of age. He hit his physical milestones early, but his speech was behind, he started to head bang around 18 months as well. My MIL was a headbanger, so we just made sure we could keep him as safe as possible until he outgrew this. Around age 4, we got an autism spectrum diagnosis from the school. This was a school diagnosis and Read more…

Gut-Healthy Vegan Burrito Bowl

As we learn about the relationship between gut health and brain health, it becomes so important that we find foods that treat our bellies with the respect they deserve. It doesn’t work if the food isn’t delicious though, so we’re adding some amazing, and delicious recipes to our blog. A clear head is essential when caring for the tiny maniacs you love, and these should help to get you there. This Recipe: Vegan Burrito bowl, Read more…

Talking to the Kids

I’m old. It’s true, as moms of young kiddos go, I’m on the old side and I get stuck in this place sometimes where I romanticize about providing my children with the same wholesome upbringing I had (even though I didn’t ACTUALLY have that). In my vision, they have an easy school experience, and come home and hang out and watch TV because screen time isn’t the evil spawn of satan in my fantasy that Read more…

10 Best Dollar Store Finds for Our Home Classroom!

When Covid hit, we were ill-prepared to have both kids back home every moment of the day. Add to that, we were at a crossroads with our then two-and-a-half year old youngest son where we needed to start teaching him things that would prepare him for preschool. There was a bit of trial and error and he never ended up going to daycare or preschool, and over an extended period, we found our stride at Read more…

Raising Kids in Chaos?

As everything unfolded in the capital yesterday, traitors to our nation bursting through the windows of the hollowed halls captured my attention and I found myself unable to break the connection between my anxious mind and my television. My children woke up from naps and the news pressed on. I wanted to change the channel, but they were by-and-large disinterested and therefor not watching the TV. Stream of conscious expletives hit my social media pages Read more…

11 Ways to Spend Less Right NOW.

Things can get tight when you have a family and a lot of bills. I used to feel overrun. The income and bills seemed to align well enough, but there was no wiggle room, no savings and credit cards needed to be used sometimes. Then in March of this year, covid reared its ugly head and we found ourselves a single income family. I dabbled in grocery delivery apart from my job, but being asthmatic, Read more…

Some People Don’t Want Kids… Its Nobody’s Business But Theirs.

I have kids. Two adorable little douchebags, perfectly created in our image. Cole looks like Alex… Sy kinda looks like me (he really looks more like John Ritter, go figure). I love them, not everybody wants their own, and I think its weird how many people care about whether or not other people decide to have kids. The abortion talk is big in the media, but I’m not even talking about that, I’m talking about Read more…

Children’s Shows Rated Part 1

Our 20 month old it pretty open-minded as TV goes, he doesn’t really watch it, but will come to dance. He’ll dance to the Forensic Files intro if that’s what’s on. Our Three-year-old is a different story altogether. His tastes are strong but short-lived. Here is a list of shows he does like or has liked in the past year, what I like about them as a Mom and what I despise about them as Read more…

We’ve Decided to Pull Cole from Preschool

Cole asking about school is heart-wrenching. It’s technically Spring-break now, but he wont be returning to his current preschool anyway. They effed up badly this week. On Thursday, with our 20-month-old strapped to me, I went outside to the bus stop to get Cole (age 3). He LOVES the bus. It’s the highlight of his school experience so far, so we’ve appreciated it. But on this occasion, things went terribly amiss. The bus normally arrives Read more…

My Issue with Anti-Vaxxers

I was reading someone’s pro-vaccination Facebook post, and a couple anti-vaxxers appeared and just put “statistics” with NO SOURCE on his page… Maybe they found it on Pinterest? On some anti-vaxxer site? God only knows! The data was wrong and a five second Google search would have let them know that, but that’s the cold, hard reality with anti-vaxxers…. They’re go blue in the face finding people who are equally as unhinged to back up Read more…

Was I a Better Mom Before I had Kids?

I found myself cooking dinner the other night, and my three-year-old desperately wanted my attention. My 20-month old ALSO wanted my attention, and they made what seemed like countless laps between their toys and the baby gate barring them from our kitchen to see what I was doing, but moreover, to why I yet again wasn’t playing with them. At one point Cole (3) started to whine and I caught myself saying (to a human Read more…