Some favorite baby items from a mom of 3, with input from our fans! My baby is 3 years old! I just can’t figure out how it’s gone by so quickly! As she outgrew things, we’ve gotten rid of the items, since we don’t plan to have any more babies. And it might sound strange, …
If you know me, you are wondering why I am giving beauty tips. I’m not saying I’m ugly just that I don’t wear makeup except mascara and my hair is usually in a bun so I don’t have to mess with it. I’m also not really fashionable. I’d rather buy kitchen products than clothes. But …
Adorable owl themed baby shower for a baby girl. One of my good friends is quite the princess. She and I are so very different, but we make such great friends because of it. She and I were given the opportunity to throw a baby shower for a dear friend of ours. We were so …
All of my kids, except for my oldest, have gone through a disaster phase. Not real disasters, but kid disasters. Like spraying the TV with a squirt gun, or unloading half the fridge, or pouring a whole box of cereal on the floor; you know kid disasters. And last Wednesday, my 2 year old did …
This post is part of our September Top 5. Check out the rest of the best here. At the beginning of last summer, I was in the best shape I had been in a long time maybe ever. Right now not so much. The last year has been full of a lot of ups …
I can’t believe that I am now the mother of 3 children. It wasn’t very long ago that Dan and I were struggling with infertility, and I wondered if I would ever hold my biological child in my arms. And now we have an almost 4 year old, a 2 year old, and a brand …
Eight somewhat surprising facts about pregnancy and delivery that most women don’t seem to know. Pregnancy and labor and delivery are two subjects that have been written and written about time and again. There is so much information out there (especially now with the internet)- which can be a great blessing, but it can also …
I was once told that the characteristic traits that first attract you to your spouse end up being the ones that usually irritate you the most about them once you’re married. I don’t remember where I heard that, but I think it’s good to remember. How we choose to see the strengths and weaknesses in …
I was reading a friends’ blog, and she mentioned that she was planning to do a book group with the book Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe by Sarah Mae and Sally Clarkson. After reading reviews on Amazon, I asked her if I could join her group. I knew I wanted to …
I went to Muffins with Mom at Kae’s preschool last Thursday and this is what greeted me on the table (along with a really cute pot with her hand-prints made into a butterfly): It made me smile, not because it is the best picture of her or of me but because this is the face that Kae has …
Let’s Be Real: Choosing to be genuine, supportive & uplifting in our relationships. A topic that seems to be coming up a lot within different groups of my friends is how hard it is to find friends, especially other moms, that we can be real with. You know, those women who we can genuinely be …