As my 8th grade daughter and I hastily made our way from one school night activity to another, she announces from the passenger seat...
You've heard of the 7 year itch in marriage? Well, there's a 7 year twitch in parenting. Ages 11 - 18. I'm halfway through...
Do you obsess about milestones and when your child should be doing something?
As a mom of two teens, I’d like to offer this advice to...
I heard something on the radio that surprised me - the first iPhone was introduced in June 2007. Doesn’t it seem that iPhones have...
Growing up I had a close friend who swam competitively. She and her four brothers all swam on the same team. At the time,...
To say that no woman is ever prepared to be a mother is an understatement. Whether motherhood finds you at 18, like it did...
When raising humans, inevitably the body hair will come. Although I wanted my daughter to wait as long as possible to start shaving her...
I caved to the pressure last Christmas and convinced my husband that it was time to get our twelve year old daughters smartphones. They were...
This year our daughters transferred from a small K-8 school to a large public middle school. To put the change in perspective, their current...
I recently attended a baby shower and found myself fascinated by some of the gifts - new baby products that did not exist when my...
I lived the first 34 years of my life in New Orleans, where my parents and their parents and their parents (and so on)...
The bedtime routine at our house takes forever. It’s a 45 minute ordeal on a good day. But it’s an atypical routine. There’s no...
Summer 2016 is quickly winding to a close. At the end of July, we picked up our twelve year old twin daughters at sleep away camp....
When my kindergartner twin daughters asked for a slumber party to celebrate their 6th birthday I said, “absolutely no." However, crestfallen faces led me...
I've been harboring a Pokémon trainer in my house for a few years now. He binge watches the shows and movies on Netflix, meticulously...
July Fourth FIREWORKS in Central Florida Guide
There are SO many fireworks celebrations happening in and around Central Florida.
We’ve got you covered with a rundown of what’s happening in our 4th...
