School Years

May brings with it heat, sprinklers, swimsuits and all those flowers following April showers. It's also Better Speech and Hearing Month. As a speech-language pathologist, it's my time to shine, lol. During my practice, I specialized in pediatric speech and language disorders, and...

It's been two years since that night. Two years and I still relive those feelings. To this day, if the phone rings during the night, my heart panics and I have trouble sleeping afterwards. It was all a prank....

I have a 9 year old that still wets the bed. I never imagined that this would be a problem that we would be handling. A problem that can be heartbreaking at times. It's like a family secret. Last summer...

Disclosure :: This post is sponsored by Ascension Episcopal School. Let Summer at Ascension Save the Day While the kids are counting down the days until summer with outlandish excitement, you might find your level of anxiety slowly creeping up to...

**Please note that I have no interest in disclosing the name of the daycare facility or the director. I only write this to share my experience and emotional growth as a mother.** Being a mom is a weird gig for...

I've been a teacher in Lafayette Parish for nine years now. My school is one of "those schools" that does teacher appreciation BIG! We receive gifts every day of the week, PTO buys us a gift, and we have...

The dreaded state testing week, LEAP if you're in the public school circle, is looming over us.  While it's an absolutely miserable week for students and teachers alike, there are things you can do to help ease the stress of...

I see you, Mama, with your precious boy with the long eyelashes and beautiful smile. He says "Hello" and "Yes Ma'am" and even says grace before his meals. He gives bear hugs and sweet kisses and tells you how...

You'd think someone whose majority of personal blog traffic comes from Pinterest would be able to pull off the "Pinterest Mom" persona. Not quite. Finally after a few years of mothering, I thought I had gotten my act together. I had the...

Privacy. Personal space. Dignity. These are just a few of the things that I have lost since becoming a mom. Many may argue, and I will agree, that I have gained much more by adding children to my family:...