Summer Vacation: Your Beach Trip Checklist!
Want to make sure your trip to the beach is perfect? Use this beach trip checklist so your day is memorable for all the right reasons.
Category: Parenting Single Parenting: Sanity Savers for Single Moms
Single parenting seems to be synonymous for exhaustion. I live on caffeine and sugar, and a constant nagging feeling that I’m going to forget something. I live with a feeling of being behind and always wanting to rush to “catch up”. So what kind of sanity savers for single moms…
My Top 5 Kids Summer Activities
Summer vacation is here. Ahh summer, when the temperature is up, school’s out (even for us homeschoolers) and the kids are… underfoot. Sometimes, annoyingly so. What kinds of kids summer activities can we do? We can’t spend every day at the beach or at the park, and I can’t be…
To the Desperately Overwhelmed Mom
Hey self, how are you? Don’t have time to breathe huh? Feeling desperately overwhelmed? Well sit back for a moment, put down your phone and read these few paragraphs. Let me remind you of a few things. I get that you’re busy. There’s a lot to do! Kids, baby, teens,…
To the Mom of Just One Child
I was once where you are, with just one child. For four years, I had a delightful, aggravating, adorable and annoying little girl, all to myself. It was just her and me, and I didn’t know if I was going to have any more. Being a mom of one, no…
Single parenting: Taking Time Off
As a mother, it’s rare that I get time off. As a single mother, taking time off happens more than it did as a married mother, oddly enough. My children’s father does regularly take our children for his visitation weekends, so I get approximately 48 hours out of 2 weeks…
Special Needs: Transitions and delays — Getting a copy of report and assessment
Life has a way of taking interesting twists and turns. I didn’t know how important getting a copy of report and assessments would be. Right around the time that I was growing more concerned about my daughter’s development, my marriage was disintegrating. So by the time we saw the speech-language…
Single parenting: how to be present and still do everything
Single moms are often portrayed as superwomen. We manage everything, on our own. And to the outside view, it can look like we’re handling everything without a hiccup. Single parenting often magnifies the good and the bad. It makes the good days easier and the bad days a whole lot…
A Challenging Child? Our first step on our special needs journey..
“I’m happy, as long as they’re healthy!” I remember saying this while pregnant with my daughter. I was asked if I was hoping for a boy, since I already had a 4 year old girl. It’s a commonly said phrase. But what if your baby isn’t “healthy”. What if they…
Craving Connection: How to find your village
They say it takes a village to raise a child. There’s some truth to this. Though, to be honest, I’m not sure I want just anyone in my village. However, we all need that support. Because we all crave connection. We want to belong. We want to be known, to…
Single Parenting: Sanity Savers for Single Moms
Single parenting seems to be synonymous for exhaustion. I live on caffeine and sugar, and a constant nagging feeling that I’m going to forget something. I live with a feeling of being behind and always wanting to rush to “catch up”. So what kind of sanity savers for single moms…
My Top 5 Kids Summer Activities
Summer vacation is here. Ahh summer, when the temperature is up, school’s out (even for us homeschoolers) and the kids are… underfoot. Sometimes, annoyingly so. What kinds of kids summer activities can we do? We can’t spend every day at the beach or at the park, and I can’t be…
To the Desperately Overwhelmed Mom
Hey self, how are you? Don’t have time to breathe huh? Feeling desperately overwhelmed? Well sit back for a moment, put down your phone and read these few paragraphs. Let me remind you of a few things. I get that you’re busy. There’s a lot to do! Kids, baby, teens,…
To the Mom of Just One Child
I was once where you are, with just one child. For four years, I had a delightful, aggravating, adorable and annoying little girl, all to myself. It was just her and me, and I didn’t know if I was going to have any more. Being a mom of one, no…
Single parenting: Taking Time Off
As a mother, it’s rare that I get time off. As a single mother, taking time off happens more than it did as a married mother, oddly enough. My children’s father does regularly take our children for his visitation weekends, so I get approximately 48 hours out of 2 weeks…
Special Needs: Transitions and delays — Getting a copy of report and assessment
Life has a way of taking interesting twists and turns. I didn’t know how important getting a copy of report and assessments would be. Right around the time that I was growing more concerned about my daughter’s development, my marriage was disintegrating. So by the time we saw the speech-language…
Single parenting: how to be present and still do everything
Single moms are often portrayed as superwomen. We manage everything, on our own. And to the outside view, it can look like we’re handling everything without a hiccup. Single parenting often magnifies the good and the bad. It makes the good days easier and the bad days a whole lot…
A Challenging Child? Our first step on our special needs journey..
“I’m happy, as long as they’re healthy!” I remember saying this while pregnant with my daughter. I was asked if I was hoping for a boy, since I already had a 4 year old girl. It’s a commonly said phrase. But what if your baby isn’t “healthy”. What if they…
Craving Connection: How to find your village
They say it takes a village to raise a child. There’s some truth to this. Though, to be honest, I’m not sure I want just anyone in my village. However, we all need that support. Because we all crave connection. We want to belong. We want to be known, to…