Ages + Stages

I love February with its designated day for love.  Really, a holiday for love?  Oh yes, please. I’m not the commercial sort that loves to receive flowers or chocolates.  Rather I love February because it gives me a chance to...

I opened my son’s daily work folder from school and saw the note, “Please bring a 2 liter bottle of soda for our weekly soda drive! Whichever class brings the most bottles gets a free dress day!” Matching note...

Before my daughter was born, I bought all of the pacifiers and swore that I would do whatever I could to make her a "paci baby" instead of a "thumb-sucking baby". My reason? You can take away a paci,...

Buying a car can be a scary and exciting time in a young person’s life. So when it came time for our 18 year old to get her own car – we decided to draw up a “contract” and help...

Soccer, ballet, basketball, boy scouts, and dance team are a few of the after school activities that occupy my children's time. Life with four children can get very hectic! Now, add in practices, games, recitals, and club events... that's...

Is there any parent who doesn’t want the best for their children? Even though we typically answer, “Yes, absolutely!” sometimes we face challenges without easy solutions. Case in point: My daughter is not yet in kindergarten and I'm finding myself stressing...

With the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (rest in power) I am reminded of how far we have come but also of all we have yet to accomplish. I want my daughter to know that she "belongs in rooms...

2021 is going to be a BIG year of FIRSTs and LASTs for me (and my daughter). It’s her senior year and I am seriously NOT ready. I didn’t think I was going to be so emotional but when I took...

I recently learned (after almost 12 years) that Clue is my husband's favorite board game. (I had to have known this already...but years of motherhood had erased that knowledge)  So one weekend, when we had one kid grounded from technology,...

I struggle with the tween years the most. They break little pieces of my heart and scare me. These are the years where I see my daughter's childhood innocence slipping into a mature understanding of the world around her. Those...