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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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, Read more…
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 Read more…
In March of 2020, a wave of super cooties spanned the globe and the law firm I was administrator of closed its doors for good. I had done some “side hustles’ already to get out of the house, but was put in a position where I had to be more Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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, Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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, Read more…
Cole had his 13th day of school on Wednesday. It would be his sixtenth, but he had the flu by the end of week 2, so we kept him out a few extra days. On Wednesday, he came home with a shiner, and small cuts under his eye. He also Read more…
It had been my understanding that it didn’t make sense to teach very young children to apologize, because, until they understand empathy, it wouldn’t mean anything. As the daughter of a Canadian, I apologize constantly… egregiously to Americans. I actually mean it when I apologize, too. I feel bad for Read more…
1 . Potty Mouth Parents! I would be doing you and my family a terrible injustice if I didn’t mention our very own blog. You should read this on because we really do care about your experience as parents. We’re not people that sugar coat too much, and we’re imperfect Read more…
Do you envision tumbleweed rolling thru the corridors of your blog? You give your heart to your blog if you’re writing about something that makes you passionate, but what if other people aren’t passionate about your blog? What if they don’t even know about your blog? You may feel Read more…
So a little intro into my inexpensive lifestyle….If you’ve read ANY of my posts on money, it becomes pretty clear that I’m not one to waste money. I was raised by a very cheap mother and a financially wasteful father, and I was terrified to spend money. Now, I don’t Read more…
So, If your scroll down to my 2016 post about how I saved over $14,000 in one year on stuff that I didn’t need, you have a good jumping off point. That post referenced a time before we added kids to our life though, so there are more savings to Read more…