3 Ways To Celebrate MLK With Children
When my oldest daughter, Adrielle, was in the second grade, she came home from school and told me that two schoolmates refused to play with her. “They said they are better than me because...
The Best Places To Donate Kids Items (That Do The Most Good)
With back to school, the early fall can be a great time to round up the kids and go through the items in their bedrooms and play rooms that are no longer providing value....
What To Do With The Christmas Cards AFTER Christmas?
While living in a digital world, I have begun to appreciate cards in the mail in a special way. I like seeing "punny" cards and the families that show their realness by leading with...
Raising a Chrismukkah Kid as a Hanukkah Mom
The holidays are a time of magic. Being stuck inside a warm house with family, watching movies about magic and family as lights twinkle down the block feels like holiday time to me. I...
6 Ways to Teach Advent to Our Children
The holiday season can be so busy. In our family, we are striving to create family memories, have quiet reflections, and celebrate meaningful traditions.
The main way we have refocused the month of December around...
Am I A Grinch For Wanting A Minimalist Christmas?
Am I A Grinch For Wanting A Minimalist Christmas? For quite a while now, I’ve struggled with my relationship to “stuff.” Deep down, I want to be a minimalist. And by minimalist, I don’t...
Making it Work as a Working Mom
5 things you must absolutely have to make your life easy as a working mom who once thought she’d never understand stay at home parents.
As you may have read here and here, I was...
Five Principles for New Step-Parents
I used to feel my blood boil when a passing stranger would say “you’ll understand when you have real kids”. Didn’t they know who researched doctors? Who did literal and emotional backbends to get...
October is Dyslexia Awareness Month
October is National Dyslexia Awareness Month. Did you know that dyslexia affects as much as 10%-20% of the entire worlds population and makes up 80%-90% of those with specific learning disabilities in the school...
Parenting with PTSD: Domestic Violence Awareness Month
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness month. This is my journey to realizing that I'm parenting with PTSD. According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men...