Parenting

We all know being a mom is hard but here are a few tips to keep as handy reminders when mom-life gets a bit chaotic! Treat Yourself: While you’re busy taking care of everyone else, don’t forget to care for yourself. It’s so important to carve out time each day for …

If we have ever had children or step-children, we know there are so many wonderful moments that come from our experiences with them.  It isn’t always easy and some nights we stay awake wondering if we handled a conflict correctly or simply feel we have let our children down.  In …

I can’t tell you how many times I hear this same refrain: “God, Mikalee, you need a vacation.” Look, I get it. I obviously appear to be exhausted. I snap when I shouldn’t. I have bags under my eyes. I listen to the Wiggles Spotify station when no kids are …

In honor April being Alcohol Awareness Month, I thought it might be useful to get some information about fetal alcohol syndrome/spectrum out to our RMB community. I frequently take panicked calls and visits from newly expecting mothers who may have had a few drinks before they discovered they were pregnant. …

I will never forget that phone call. I was trying to learn a new system work was implementing when my phone began to buzz. It was my son’s daycare. That sinking feeling hit as I wondered what could be going on. “Hello, Mrs. Bradfield?” “Yes, this is her.” “Ok great. …

It seems like part of being a mom is the stretch marks that come with being pregnant. As much as those “warrior marks” are proof of the miracle that you created a new life, many of us would prefer not to live with those souvenirs for the rest of our …

I’m about to make a confession — and you’ll soon understand why the source of this confession was not my proudest mommy moment. When I first found out I was pregnant, I remember having a conversation with my mom about this tiny human I was incubating. And as my thoughts …

Sometimes I forget just how much fun we can have right here in northern Nevada, so when a recent opportunity came up to stay in a newly renovated room at Circus Circus, I jumped on it. It was just what my family needed – a break from the chaos of …

Pi Day. Was that even a thing when we were kids? Pi Day is March 14 – you know, 3/14 – because in math, pi is 3.14. Pretty clever, isn’t it? But we couldn’t just leave it at clever, could we? No, we had to get all over-achieving over here and DO …

At 2:30 this morning Spider, our liver and white Springer Spaniel, woke me up to say that he needed to go out. I attempted to ignore him and hoped that my husband would wake up and take care of it. I knew quite well that my husband was not going to wake up and it was clear that Spider …