When my daughter is 16, I hope for a few things:
1) For shorts to be longer
2) For less time online and more time outside
3) For teenage girls to care more about how their bodies feel than how they look
Is...
With the summer comes hot days, with hot days comes the need to cool off, with the need to cool off comes POOLS, with pools comes water, with water comes the potential for a drowning.
Earlier this summer my family...
Yup, you read that right. I'm cheating on my husband and not with another man (or woman) but with work! When I wake up, I think about work, when I go to bed, I'm thinking about work and when...
How Many Reminders Does it Take?
As parents we are faced with opportunities to teach our children all day long. However, not every moment is immediately recognizable as “teachable.” Sometimes our gut reaction robs our children of an opportunity to...
The other day after swim lessons I was getting in my car. It was probably 100 degrees and around 4:30 in the afternoon. My butt immediately stuck to my leather seats, I could barely breathe in the stifling heat,...
I’ve moved plenty of times before. I can count this Reno to Austin move as my tenth one in 17 years. There’s not much I loathe more than the entire packing process. Pile, wrap, box, label, repeat. It’s so...
It's all the rage. Photography with your phone. Don't get me wrong ... I LOVE the ability to capture a moment with my phone! I don't have to get my camera out, fiddle with the settings or do much...
It's that time again....summer is coming to an end and school will begin soon! I don't know about you, but our summer has flown by. I'm excited for school to start and sad for summer to end all at...
I recently gave birth to my second child, another beautiful baby boy that we named Finn. When I found out that I was pregnant, it didn’t even phase me. Pregnancy – schmegnancy. I was an old...
I have a brother, he's 15, stinky, snarky and perverted. He also thinks he's the next Troy Aikman, but that's not what I'm blogging about today...I'm focusing in on the snarky. I love the kid but, man...my brother is...