Michelle Duggar has me feeling a little like an underachiever today. I mean for starters she just announced she's expecting with child number 20. TWENTY!! I mean there's a good chance in two or three generations half the population of the United States will be a descendent of the Duggar clan for Pete's sake. Talk about leaving a legacy. What else is leaving me small and meek? How about this: 1. She is 45 and chasing after toddlers and babies like a twenty year old. I get exhausted just …
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Top Ten Back to School Movies
There are curled, dried up maple leaves on my driveway this morning and I can hardly smell sunscreen on my kids anymore. There's been no sticky burnt marshmallow crust in my hair for almost a week and every store I go to …
Stick or Quit: When to Let Your Child Abandon an Extracurricular Activity
We've covered the many benefits of kids participating in sports and arts based extracurricular activities in Top 10 Benefits of Sports-Based Extracurricular Activities and Top 10 Reasons Your Kids Need Arts-Based …
Wake Up Buttercup – Spring Clean Your Soul
I don’t know about you, but I am so very happy to see Spring this year. It has been a particularly wintery winter in my part of the world, a lot of snow, a lot colder than the previous years, and it lingered longer than …
Top 10 Reasons Your Kids Need Arts-Based Extracurricular Activities
In the Top 10 Reasons Your Kids Need Sports-Based Extracurricular Activities post, I listed many reasons why physical activity is awesome for kids both in terms of their physical and mental well-being. While …
Five Best Holiday Hostess Gifts
‘Tis the season for entertaining and going to parties and racking your brain for a gift that shows genuine appreciation for your hostess. Riffling the back of the drinks cupboard for the bottle of Jägermeister won at a …
Five Tips for Raising Teens in A Digital Age
The other night I called my mom to blow off steam. My teen girls had been pushing all my buttons, as teens do, and I needed a sounding board — someone who had been there, done that. My mother reminded me that there was …
