Tweens & Teens

I love assembling Easter baskets. It's been a family tradition since the girls were babies. Holiday traditions naturally evolve as the years pass. My girls are teens now, and this is the third Easter that we’ve had non-bunny-believers, a fact that...

Over the past 20 years of married life, I've owned more coffee pots than you can count. From traditional Mr. Coffee pots, expensive Ninja Coffee Bar gizmos, a few French Press makers, a Keurig, and my latest coffee obsession...

This post has been sponsored by Fresh Wave Works, a favorite product of Orlando Moms Blog contributors. All opinions below are 100% our own.  OK mamas, let's start naming all of the funky odors that can waft through our home on...

{{Our team was inspired by one of our fellow contributor’s posts, “No More New Year’s Resolutions – Just Choose One Word”, so we decided to share our selected words and the reasoning behind them in a series called “My...

To say that no woman is ever prepared to be a mother is an understatement. Whether motherhood finds you at 18, like it did me, or at 41 like one of my friends, there is nothing a book or...

I heard something on the radio that surprised me - the first iPhone was introduced in June 2007. Doesn’t it seem that iPhones have been part of our world for longer than ten years? I was very late to...

It’s been less than 10 years since iPhone changed our country, our culture, our world. Gone are the days of pay phones and Facebook via the desktop. As a member of the generation with my childhood riding in cars without movie entertainment and my...

Without a doubt, experience is the best teacher. My twin daughters are in sixth grade. Despite all the parenting books I’d read and the war stories I'd heard, I was ill-prepared for the drama of middle school. I was equally unprepared for the...

Orlando Moms Blog had the amazing opportunity to attend MassMutual's event, FutureSmart. This was a collaboration with Mass Mutual and The Junior Achievement of Central Florida. The keynote speaker was none other than Hill Harper, T.V. star from The Good Doctor! Hill spoke...

I lived the first 34 years of my life in New Orleans, where my parents and their parents and their parents (and so on) lived their entire lives. I had no intention whatsoever of living anywhere else until I...

It’s funny, but I hadn’t thought about this consciously since my kids passed through those first three years of life: How does my child compare to others her age? Is she developing right? Is she exceptional or is it...

We sat across from one another sipping our coffee. She was traveling back to her college campus and had asked if we could meet. I jumped at the chance to hear about how her life was going. We talked for hours....

Can you remember that fateful day you started your first period? I would venture to state that it is an unforgettable milestone in a girl’s life. We all have different experiences, views and feelings about our first period. I was...

I was a “well rounded” student in high school (my euphemism for “average”). The only time I thought about the SAT exam was the morning my mom woke me up, made me a hearty breakfast and sent me off...

LICE. (That got your attention, didn't it?!) Today, Nemours CareConnect debunks five common myths about lice and the truth behind them. Every few months, some kind of infection sweeps through classrooms, camps and daycare centers — chickenpox, colds, pink eye...