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A puppy is necessary for every home that has kids. Kids want to have a best friend, protector, and someone they can play with the entire day. However, not all dogs are family-friendly. Which...

After a hard day’s work and the hustles and bustles of life, everyone deserves to come home to a great home, to enjoy a good night’s sleep. There are several things that come to...

I recently explained why on earth a perfectly sane woman like me would ever bother trying a menstrual cup. There I was just enjoying a normal tampon life, when motherhood forced me try something...

Moms, do have a difficult child? Not “bad” or “mean” necessarily, but just difficult? I do. He’s adorable and smart, so smart, and funny. But he’s my hardest child to parent. And it makes...

How many times have you heard someone say "I am so ADD" or so-and-so is "so ADD"? Perhaps you know a mom who has struggled with a young child who is suspected of having...

It's day 12 of 14. There is currently $29.66 in the account. Two more days until pay day. Two more days of trying to make it stretch. Is there gas in my car? Is...

"Sit at the table".  Four words that resonated with me when I heard them some years ago. This is certainly not a new concept, but only now am I pushing myself to live by...

Today started as any other Monday. I made the dark roast coffee. I packed the lunches full of tiny human favorites. I passed out pairs of brightly colored socks. That’s about where the similarities...

  I open my eyes, careful not to move the rest of my body an inch. Curled on my side, my bottom arm bent elbow up towards the headboard, I create a little nest for...

I’ve been a tampon girl forever. Pads are for postpartum use only, as far as I’m concerned. So when my daughter started her period, I floundered a little on what to do. Starting with...

Having a daughter enter the wonderful world of womanhood gave me a front row seat to the jarring reality of how poorly our society had prepared me to prepare her. I think my husband...

As my 8th grade daughter and I hastily made our way from one school night activity to another, she announces from the passenger seat that her boyfriend just broke up with her. In a...

You've heard of the 7 year itch in marriage? Well, there's a 7 year twitch in parenting. Ages 11 - 18. I'm halfway through death valley, seasoned in dodging the eye roll but still...

We were sitting at the dining room table and discussing how thankful we were for our family and my five year old daughter was naming all of her cousins and telling us "who they...

I have this amazing friend who just gets it. She invites us to sensory-safe places, schedules mom dates when our husbands are free to watch the kids, and doesn't expect anything from me or my...