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10 Ways I Will Parent My Teenager Like a Kindergartener
How will I survive the teenage years? The hormones ... the mood swings ... the changes my sweet baby will go through as she becomes a young woman. What will I...
With schools closed as a result of the coronavirus, many of us moms are finding ourselves unexpectedly confined to the house with kids, scrambling to come up with ways to entertain them without spending a bunch of money. All...
Showing Gratitude
Over the last few months, we have come together as a community, as a nation, to show support for our Front Line Workers. We've sewn masks, donated money, dropped food and helped acquire PPE. The Blue Angels flew...
Just a few months ago, April and May brought the end of the most difficult school year we had ever seen in my family. You’re probably nodding your head with understanding. My oldest son graduated high school and my...
Yesterday my 8-year-old son came to me with the Ghostbusters sign he had hanging on his bedroom door, I made for him a year ago, and said “here I don’t like Ghostbusters anymore, now I like Star Wars,” and...
Since lockdown, we rarely take our almost 15-month-old anywhere other than daycare. He’s been to his grandparents’ houses, he’s been to my aunt and uncle’s house to swim a few times, and last weekend we took him to his...
If you are anything like me, you like to watch shows like So You Think you Can Dance or Dancing With The Stars. I'm fascinated in all the choreography, dance moves and, especially, the male dancers and how spectacular...
I don't know that I experienced a true nesting phase when I was pregnant with Jane. It could be that we discovered we had to have our house tented for termites and that the soonest they could do it...
As an occupational therapist, I have a strong desire to encourage independent living skills with my kids. At a very early age, I was encouraging them to dress themselves, brush their own teeth, bathe themselves ... any life skill,...
Typical school in our home probably isn't the same as typical school in your home. That's mainly because we homeschool our kiddos. Since I homeschool, I don't do the hustle and bustle of uniforms, lunches, car line, and parent...
Gone are the days when you would walk your child to their classroom. No longer can you chit-chat with the teachers about their weekend or evening or ask how your child is doing. We all took for granted those...
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Ever Wished You Had 8 Arms?!
I am one of those people that insists on carrying everything all at once to avoid making a second trip. When my daughter,...
We are a team of bloggers. So that means that we routinely put our lives, thoughts and emotions on the table for every mom of New Orleans to read. We have never said we are experts, psychologists, pediatricians, lactation...