First, let me preface this blog by saying I wrote this in January for a February posting, but decided to hold off after the news broke that three of the animals got sick and two of them even died.  Since then, it has been confirmed that their food source had …

Pure silence. Do any moms out there know or remember what this sounds like? I’m not talking about the calm that comes over your house when the kids finally go to bed, but rather a “hear a pin drop” kind of silence. Over the weekend I found myself at home …

Remember the days when you were trying to conceive your children and missing our period was a momentous occasion and running to the drugstore to buy a stick to pee on was beyond exciting and waiting to see the result was the most exhilarating two minutes of your life and …

Can we talk about boobs for a minute? My five year old son has a slight obsession. Am I alone in this? From asking how my bra goes on to simply coming up and touching them, he’s definitely noticed them. I know it’s only natural, but it’s really funny and …

Is it me or are kids waaaaay more overloaded with life than I was as a kid? They are forced to grow up so fast! I look around and it seems like there are kids with busier schedules than mine! They go from sport to sport and activity to activity …

You know the handful of times when you had to run into a store or drop something off and doing so would only take you seconds, but because you had your child in the car it ended up taking 15 minutes? It’s crazy how all of that extra time is …

Spending three hours on a Monday night talking about pedophiles wasn’t exactly how I wanted to spend my time, but in order to volunteer at my son’s school I had to take a class called “Protecting God’s Children.” My son attends kindergarten at private Catholic school (hence the “God” part). …

Go with your gut. Advice we’ve heard and used. Or not used. It’s that hard to describe feeling you get about something or someone. It’s innate. It sits in your stomach like that second piece of pie you know you shouldn’t have devoured. It weighs on you. It feels like …

Do you ever feel like your life resembles the movie “Groundhog Day?” I’m kind of there. Don’t get me wrong, my life is good, but I feel like I do the same thing everyday. Yes, we go places and do things and have fun, but overall I feel like our …

I was emailing with my grandmother recently and she told me she remembers going through some of the same things I write about in my blogs. She said one summer she was so overwhelmed with having three boys under age six that she sent the older two boys (my dad …