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3 Non-Traditional (Toddler Approved!) Ways to Decorate for Christmas!

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So, my destructive curious toddler has made decorating for the holidays challenging.  Any of you in the same predicament?  I have tubs and tubs of beautiful decorations, and years of sentimental ornaments nestled safely...
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OneDay I’ll Look Back on This

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Has anyone ever said to you that having children makes marriage harder? Well, I've heard it a lot, but it was never true until now.   Having a child felt like the opposite for the...

Spotting Hand Foot Mouth Disease

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While my kiddo and I were on vacay across the country, he developed hand foot mouth disease (while getting molars). I had no idea. Because like so many things with kiddos, these germs showed themselves...

Raising Readers: Tips for Early Literacy

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"A room without books is like a body without a soul." Marcus Tullius Cicero This was a quote that was on a refridgerator magnet in my childhood home. What does this mean to you as a...
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Halloween Themed Birthday Party

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Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, and some of my most memorable birthday parties as a child were Halloween themed. When planning my son's 2nd birthday, I wanted to keep it simple.  I’m not...

The “I Don’t Have Enough Patience” Homeschooling Myth

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In full disclosure, I've kinda always wanted to homeschool my kids...for all the right reasons, and maybe some not-so-valid ones too.   But when it came down to it, I put my kids in public...
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Just a Boy & His Dog

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A treasure found on OneDay Over the past few months I have been using OneDay to take small videos of my son.  Today, I was looking through some of the short clips I have made...

Scouting Out Round Rock Memorial Park

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Don’tcha just love the cooler weather of fall and all the outside exploring it lends itself to? I know we do. Ah, to be outside after 9 a.m. and not be drenched in sweat....
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10 Signs That You Are Living in a Boy’s World

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As I was growing up in a house full of girls, what a boy's world was like never crossed my mind. As a little girl, they were just those gross and dirty people in...

Creative Consequences: Parenting WIN.

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If you're anything like me, you need to dish out a redirection or consequence at least a hundred times once a day.  My kids are 2 and 7 (almost 8!), and we have a...