I’m in the Halloween sweet spot. Pun intended. These are the very limited years when my kids are at an adorable age in which people want to shower them with candy and yet they are too small to ingest certain kinds (which means it’s MINE). It’s also the age when they are too young to form ...

I join a lot of parenting circles online. I do this so that I am exposed to a variety of parenting methods, ideas and support that comes from all over the world. I don’t have time to read full books, so this is my way to absorbing as much as I can to make better decisions about how to raise ...

Whenever I talk to a seasoned parent who raised their children in the 90s, 80s or before, I have a tendency to stare at them in awe. I just cannot even comprehend how they successfully parented children, let alone survived themselves in a time before the necessities we have as parents now. Yes, ...

As we return from [Munogate][1] (thank you to my friend Emily for naming last week’s drama), I didn’t want to dismiss what was said in the comments because I think it’s something that should be addressed. Yes, my parenting style is different from most people's. My personality is ...

We’ve established my [love/hate relationship][1] with the pin-filled social time suck, right? I hate the standards it sets in my head for how my life is supposed to look and operate, but I still find myself losing hours each week scouring the site for a pinned image of my perfect mantle...or ...

I have awesome friends who can out-hippie even the hippie-est of my hippie ways. So remember my [last post][1]? The one where I go on and on about how much I dread baby food season. Yeah, forget all that. We’re going a different route. After I wrote my last post, a friend of mine who I ...