With the summer season coming up, and the many anticipated vacations that are synonymous with it, I thought I might provide a few tips I’ve picked up along the way for traveling with little ones.
Plan for extra time. If you’re flying, really do get to the airport 2 hours early, so you don’t have to [...]
Spring has sprung, even here in Michigan! And while our early warm weather means we can justify biking to Dairy Queen already (whoo hoo!), can already play baseball in the park and basketball in our driveway, can already have squirt gun fights and break out the water table, most importantly it means it’s time to start our garden!
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One of the most stressful parts of being a working parent is finding good day care. Not decent day care, not suitable day care, but really good day care.
As I am about to begin my fourth (FOURTH!) round of day care interviews and visits, I consider myself a bit of an expert on the [...]
There are times when, as a parent, I really just want a break. Every parent gets there at some point, right? It’s occasional, but I definitely do.
Like this past weekend, when I was sicker than a dog, glued to the toilet, exhausted as all get-out…and so were the kids.
Seriously, how completely unfair [...]
I have a parenting strategy (some might call it a flaw) that I live by.
I refuse to lie to my kids.
Now I’m guessing your first reaction is likely “WHO would LIE to their kids?” But it’s easier than you think: Where do babies come from? Why don’t YOU have a penis, Mommy? [...]
Growing up, Thanksgiving was one of two completely different holidays. It was either a big meal on a four-day weekend with only my nuclear family…or it was a madhouse of folks somehow distantly related to me and our dozens of “cousins” (which is what we called anyone under 18 for simplicity’s sake) running feral, enough [...]
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