Ages + Stages

The first week of pregnancy starts the first day of your menstrual cycle when you aren’t actually pregnant. So at the time of the Embryo Transfer, I was about 2 weeks pregnant. At the end of the T.W.W. we...

Let's talk for a minute about kids and devices. REAL LIFE POST: Back in September, my oldest son turned 14. He desperately wanted a smart phone. When he was 13, I gave him a flip-phone (best decision ever). It served its...

Summer is here, school is out, and you are about to hear the endless onslaught of “But, Mom….I’m bored!” It is so tempting to think we need to fill every moment of the summer with fun activities and events....

Every other Wednesday I am fortunate to get two hours of time with a wonderful group of moms. During this time my 2 year old daughter attends "school." As we were leaving the other day there was a young...

From the time he was born until now, my kid has never been a great sleeper. Which has made us team late bedtime by default.  He's about to turn five years old, and he is JUST NOW sleeping through the...

As soon as October comes around, I am a new person. Fall is my time of year. When it is Fall, it means it’s almost my birthday. I was extremely close to becoming a Halloween baby, I was a...

As a mom, and a speech therapist who enjoys working with feeding kiddos, my poor son has had to endure multiple sensory feeding experiments that I just had to try. Most of them have been a success (I will...

Earlier this spring I applied for a Pre-K 3 program for Wesley and was unsure he was going to get in solely due to space availability. Two weeks ago I got the call that he was accepted and just...

When our girls turned a year old, a dear friend told me she'd been warned about coming months. Specifically, the months between a year and a year and half were some of the hardest of times. I laughed it off...

Like a lot of the rest of the country, Texas schools are not resuming their 2019-2020 year in the classroom. They will continue distance learning until the last day of the school year. I personally have been prepping my first...