Toddlers

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...

Should you "Festival" with a toddler?????? Yes, you should!!! One of the things I said before I had a baby was that I was never going to let a baby stop me from doing what I love. And what do I love?...

It was a day that I'll never forget. I was trying to get my two toddlers, Amie and Ann Riess, out the door to get one to Mothers Day Out, and of course, we were running late. I was trying...

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...

My first two children were born 12 months apart. You know what they call that? Irish Twins Oh we have the luck o' the Irish in our blood. Walking around wearing a baby, while holding a baby, is a tough gig. You...

Like my oldest child, I grew up with Sensory Processing Disorder. While I have adjusted and adapted with age, I still have an immediate spike in anxiety when I hear loud noises, overlapping noises or when I am “touched...

I am a mother to four children ages 6, 5, 3, and 1. No, those were not typos.  We are beginning to reap the benefits of children so close in age. Our oldest two are BFFs and our middle two...

It was a warm summer day in 2017 when my family got the craving for some pizza. No normal delivery-chain pizza would do; no, we wanted something special. Something customizable. We wanted Pizza Artista. But of course, we didn't...

Two days after Christmas, I went through all of the toys in my son’s room and closet. I was "purging." We had not really cleaned out his toy collection in a while, and it was time to get rid...

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:...