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This is Why and When Your Kids Need to Hear You Say “No”!

This is Why and When Your Kids Need to Hear You Say “No”! I am rushing through the grocery store with two cranky kids in tow. They are tired, and hungry and miss sitting quietly on the floor playing with DUPLO. Instead, we are flying down the bread aisle in a desperate search for the only honey View Post

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Elf on the Shelf the Danish Way

Growing up in Denmark, I loved everything about the magic of Christmas - especially our own version of the Elf on the Shelf - the Danish way! Elf on the Shelf the Danish Way! Ever since I was a little girl growing up in Denmark I have embraced all the magic surrounding Christmas, Santa, and all View Post

Filed Under: Hygge, IG Links, Life Style, Our Life, Winter Tagged With: Christmas, cute, family, Happiness, live in the now

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The Best Ways to Connect With Grandparents Across the Miles

Grandparents are the fun central of a kid's childhood! Use these ideas to connect with grandparents when you can't see them regularly! The Best Ways to Connect With Grandparents Across the Miles Grandparents, the unsung heroes of any childhood. Who's better at building LEGO than a grandparent? View Post

Filed Under: Motherhood, Our Life, Parenting, Relationships Tagged With: family, Motherhood

Tips for special needs moms. Tips for newly diagnosed medical moms. How to adjust to your new normal when your child has just been diagnosed. Help for heart moms with heart warriors. Learn how to find your happiness again as a medical mom, special needs moms. Find your happiness after a medical diagnosis. #MedicalMom #HeartMom #HeartWarrior #SpecialNeeds #SpecialNeedsMom #MamaintheNow

5 Important Things Every New Medical Mom Should Do

New Medical Moms, Listen Up! I am the mother of four boys ages 8 and younger. One of our little ones is medically complex and was diagnosed a few days after his text-book-delivery via scheduled c-section. He spent the first two months fighting for his life in the PICU, in a medically induced coma View Post

Filed Under: Health, Heart, Motherhood, Narcolepsy, Our Life, Special Needs Tagged With: Caregiver, Guest Blogging, Happiness, health, Heart, live in the now, special needs

How to help a newly diagnosed cancer patient. How to support a loved one with cancer. Supporting a parent recently diagnosed with cancer. How to help cancer patients take an active part in their diagnosis and medical journey. Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Thanks to advancements made by Astra Zeneca lung cancer patients have hope beyond tomorrow. #Cancer #Cancerpatients #Cancersupport #Cancerdiagnosis #CancerSupportForLovedOne #LCSM #LCAM #ad

How to Support a Loved One With Cancer

Thank you AstraZeneca for sponsoring this post. November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Now more than ever, there is reason for hope. Please visit LIVE W.E.L.L. and LVNG With Lung Cancer for more information. How do you support a loved one recently diagnosed with cancer? I remember exactly where View Post

Filed Under: Health, Life Style, Our Life, Reviews

Medical mom writes heartfelt account of the importance of body image, self love and the reasons why NOT to hide scars. Be proud of your scars, they tell your story. Special needs mom. #MedicalMom #SpecialNeeds #SpecialNeedsMom #Thyroid #TheMighty #MamaintheNow

This is Why I Refuse to Hide My Battle Wounds

Find Out Why I refuse to hide my scars!  I was still in an anesthesia-induced haze when I took pictures of the latest addition to my collection of surgical scars. The skin on my neck was raw, red and sensitive, much like my emotions. Going through a three-hour surgery, under general anesthesia View Post

Filed Under: Health, Motherhood, Our Life

Stressed moms and overwhelmed moms are never good in a family. Calm mom, help her through motherhood with this sweet and simple gesture. It doesn't take much to have a happy wife. #HappyWife #Motherhood #MarriageWin #ParentingWin #MamaintheNow

How to Melt a Stressed Mom’s Heart With One Sweet Gesture

Stressed Mom With Cold Feet Have you ever wanted something with every fiber of your being, but when it became a reality you started to doubt your initial decision? It happened to me. I got cold feet one evening, but then my husband did something he had never done before. I went to bed with all View Post

Filed Under: Motherhood, Our Life, Relationships

How to find happiness when life knocks you down. Tips and hacks for self-care in motherhood, finding strength, learn how to ask for help. These tips are great for the sandwich generation. #Motherhood #Selfcare #SandwichGeneration

How to Find Happiness When Life Knocks You Down

How to find happiness when life knocks you down I haven’t written without an agenda in a while. I haven’t grabbed the laptop and let my fingers dance across the keyboard without a deadline looming over my head. Today, however is the day for me to come clean and share some personal things I haven’t View Post

Filed Under: Life Style, Motherhood, Our Life

10 must-read tips for picture perfect visits with Santa. Get these fool-proof tips for great Santa pictures from a mother of four. No more tears during Christmas pictures with Santa. #SantaPictures #SantaPhotography #SantaVisit #ParentingTIp #Christmas

10 Must-Read Tips for Perfect Santa Pictures

Are you planning on taking the kids to see Santa this year? If so, don't miss the 10 must-read tips for perfect Santa pictures! (This post was originally published in 2014, but it was recently updated with a few new tips I learned along the way!) We recently took the kids to see Santa and it went View Post

Filed Under: Baby (0-1 years), Kid (6-9 years), Our Life, Parenting, Toddler (2-5 years), Winter Tagged With: Christmas, family, Motherhood

How to "Live in the Now" when life gets hard. Motherhood is hard enough, add in extra stress, how do you stay mindful in the midst of an emotional storm? Parenting while handling stress, isn't easy. Mindful and positive parenting is possible when life gets hard. This is how I am doing it - a mother of four. #LiveInTheNow #BeWhereYouAre #Mindfulness #Motherhood

How to “Live in The NOW” When Life Gets Hard

“Live in the NOW” - they say. Live with your feet planted firmly on the ground in the right here and NOW. "Live in the NOW" is what they tell us. Which “NOW” is it they are referring to? The one where I am hyper-focused on the pain and anguish around me? The NOW where my loved ones are scared, View Post

Filed Under: Hygge, Motherhood, Our Life

Everything You Need to Know About SeaWorld Halloween Spooktacular

(Thank you, SeaWorld Orlando for partnering with me on this review of the SeaWorld Halloween Spooktacular event. I received admission and compensation, in return for my unbiased and honest opinion. Every opinion stated is 100% mine.) Everything You Need to Know About SeaWorld Halloween View Post

Filed Under: Fall/ Autumn, Life Style, Our Life, Reviews

Four words that will change the way you parent - for better. Positive parenting, intuitive parenting encouragement. Special needs mom, medical mom, heart mom encouragement. Parenting with love and intuition. Mindful parenting mantra.

Four Words That Will Change The Way You Parent

In hindsight, we all have defining moments in our lives that changed, molded and shaped us. Either we were changed against our will, improved after careful planning or shaped through serendipity. Before this experience, I considered myself a pretty good parent to our two young boys. But I View Post

Filed Under: Heart, Motherhood, Our Life, Parenting, Special Needs Tagged With: Caregiver, family, Happiness, health, Heart, live in the now, Motherhood, work life balance

Turn your nursery into a big kids LEGO and whale bedroom. Fun LEGO decorations, whale decor, LEGO wall bricks, drawer knobs and whale blankets and whale art. Gender neutral kids bedroom.

The Coolest Whale & LEGO Kids Bedroom

How do you decorate your kids' bedroom when they are well past the nursery stage? THIS is how! Check out our Whale and LEGO kids bedroom. The kids LOVE it! (Thank you Minted.com for providing us with the awesome art work for this cool kids bedroom. The opinions stated are 100% mine.) It’s been View Post

Filed Under: Creative, LEGO, Life Style, Our Life, Reviews

Fun photo session idea for Father's Day, birthdays or Christmas cards. Funny family photo session. Unique group photo idea.

Fun Father’s Day Family Photo Session

Father's Day, birthdays and Christmas are all great causes of gift-giving stress. I never quite know what to get my husband who either has everything, or if he needs something, he buys it himself. Then one fine day, several years ago (four years actually) I decided to put the kids to good use. I had View Post

Filed Under: Creative, Life Style, Our Life, Summer Tagged With: brothers, Pin THIS!

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