Mom Life

Thanksgiving On The Beach Many years ago we found ourselves not traveling "home" for Thanksgiving. The days off from Grad school just weren't enough to justify the expensive plane tickets home. So we stayed. We stayed home, just the three...

November is a special month for us, we honor my daughter and her Diagnosis with Type One Diabetes. We also recognize Diabetes awareness month, and have found ways over the years to share our story. The first question we...

Good coffee: Worth The Money and The Time In our house, coffee is an event that rises to the level of sacred ritual. Once, when making a list of life goals I wrote, "Have coffee with my husband every morning."...

I am sure we are like most families: one or two nights a week we have that evening where each of our kids has an activity that overlaps and by the time we all get home it is after...

Roasted vegetables make a great side dish for almost any protein. The flavor from the browned carrots, broccoli and cauliflower is soooo good! When I have time, I use fresh veggies. But some days, all the washing, cutting and...

In my previous post I talked about how I learned to parent with the help of the internet, and how, when my oldest son was diagnosed with autism, I came to believe that vaccination causes autism. My Flawed Logic In addition...

  Sometimes when I put my daughter to sleep at night, she likes to find excuses not to fall asleep. She worries about having bad dreams. She will tell me to ‘give’ her happy thoughts to dream about. Sometimes it...

In a season of parenting that feels especially hard, our team is excited to share some of the things that are making us happy and helping us get through the days.  I have never looked forward to Fridays more in...

Halloween time already? Where did this year go? Never mind, don't answer that. For kids, the last day of October is all about candy, costumes, candy, spooky stuff, candy, candy and candy. If you choose to go the traditional route of...

Normally, a Worth It Wednesday post is about paying a little more for a higher quality product that might be a splurge, but makes you happy. Or it might be about a product that just makes life a little...