Sometimes I just need a change. OK, if I am honest, I need change often. Being stuck in the same routine day after day sort of feels like a slow death. As I am learning more about myself, I realized that my craving for constant change is just my personality type. But I also know a lot …
All week we had planned on going to see a magician at our local library. At some point, shortly before we needed to leave for the library, my darling son decided he no longer wanted to go. So he put on his shoes in between crying and stomping, I physically moved him out the door and …
Kids love art projects and making crafts. It is good for their creativity, imagination and I’m sure a million other things. But sometimes having to clean up one more mess is just too much for me! I really do love giving my kids the freedom to engage and be creative in the projects they are interested …
Now that the bulk of our school year is done, I am taking the time to look back over my plans for the past year to figure out what worked well and what failed miserably. We finished our regular school year a week and a half ago, and we are finishing up our 2-week break before we …
I often say I feel like such a boy’s mom. While my oldest is a girl, the 3 boys that follow her regularly throw our house into chaos. Boys are definitely a whole different ball game. Recently, Carlos started reading my book on raising boys and as he read me quotes for the past few …
Let’s talk injury. Now that we have made it to summer, my kids are often ripping the skin off their knee and falling off playground equipment. Just today, my youngest son cut his leg on a staple that was sticking out of the back of our couch. Surely my kids aren’t the only kids who have some kind of …
There is a billboard near my house that uses a stock photo of a beautiful, happy, smiling couple. Next to the oddly happy couple, the headline reads “Infertility?” in huge letters. The billboard is for a medical study at a local hospital. Whoever designed the billboard is obviously not super familiar with infertility. Those two people look positively …
I was recently interviewed by Jenny from Faith and Good Works about life as a homeschool mom. It is part of a blog series that interviews 25 moms about their homeschooling journey.
As moms, sometimes it feels like we are so busy taking care of someone else and making sure that everything runs smoothly that we feel invisible, like no one notices us. We feel like what we do doesn’t really matter. On an average day, I spend most of my time cooking and washing dishes. It …
What I’m loving Pilates I started doing Pilates during The Balanced Life‘s free 30-day Pilates body challenge. All of the videos were 10 minutes long, which was a great way to get introduced to this fitness system. Turns out, I really love Pilates! As a mother’s day gift to myself, I bought a month subscription to the membership program. Ever …