Motherhood

Now that I have a big-girl two year old, I have really started to rethink my approach to her toys and her play. Of course I want her to build her imagination, experience new situations, and learn about the...

I'm known for being dramatic from time to time... {rolls eyes...} Whatever. Sometimes the dramatics are necessary. Other times it's dramatics mixed with true emotion. Add into all of that pregnancy and you have the perfect recipe for "the end...

Potty training. Just writing those words makes me want to pour a glass of wine. We've survived two potty training endeavors and learned many things from the two very different experiences. One thing I've learned is that what they say about potty...

  I am a compulsive list maker. I come from a long line of list makers on both sides of my family. The list making gene is both a blessing and a curse. While my friends enviously label me as the “organized”...

*brought to you by Donor Egg Bank USA You know you want a baby, and you know you want to experience pregnancy, complete with feeling those little baby kicks. But for one of many possible reasons, you have decided to...

Hand-me-downs - hands down - have been a godsend to our family. In addition to second-hand children's stores, my children are clothed in pre-worn duds about 90% of the time. Better yet, you would never even know and my bank account...

It was epic. Not the teacher. Not the weekly class. Not the recital. The tantrum. The tantrum before her second to last dance classes was epic. Her yelling in a room with walls as thick as a tissue because she didn’t want...

I have teenage daughters, and when it comes to back-to-school shopping, my wallet sweats! One look at their wish list, and my mental math needs a calculator! All kidding aside, my girls are actually pretty thrifty. With the rise of...

Growing up I always knew I wanted to work in the criminal justice field in some capacity. The older I got the more I thought I wanted to be an officer. Then, you know, life happened and I never...

The other day I was washing one of my favorite mugs and it slipped from my soapy hands into the sink. It broke. I was heartbroken because it was the first mug I had received as a wife. It was the perfect...

Summer 2016 is quickly winding to a close. At the end of July, we picked up our twelve year old twin daughters at sleep away camp. They spent four weeks in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina having the time...

We are super excited for one of our newest Orlando Mompreneurs, Katie Gibbs! Katie is a mama of three who recently opened our one and only Central Florida Waxing the City franchise, in the Dr. Phillips shopping complex! Katie and her fabulous...

Growing up in a border city I was surrounded by the best Mexican food. Every Sunday we would go to church then cross the border in to Juarez, Mexico to do our grocery shopping. There, we would spend time...

Ah, yes. They playroom. One of the wonders of the world. A place to store your children's toys, a place to let your kids destroy everything. To keep it in a living space, open to house so mom and...

So it’s World Breastfeeding Week. And if you’re a mom like me, you might have, well, mixed feelings about the extravaganza. After a great experience breastfeeding my firstborn, I had to pump exclusively for #2, and so far, for...