Boy Mom Life With Humor and Hygge
I am honored to feature another post today from Sidney Young from Need Organizing? She is a “regular” on my blog because I love her down-to-earth common sense ways to combat clutter and keep your home organized! I know you will love this article from her too! Here is Sidney’s: "The Best Guide to View Post
If you find yourself knee-deep in potty training, chances are you will LOVE these potty training reminders. You will feel validated, I promise! I have never been an overly ambitious mother, especially not when it comes to potty training. I always figured that the boys would catch on - eventually. View Post
Congratulations, you are pregnant! You have been down this path once, twice (maybe even more times). You know what to expect from your body, your spouse, and friends. But there is one unknown factor this time - your toddler! The little being who up until now has been your baby. The cherub who View Post
Fuse beads, Perler beads, fun-beads-to-stick-in-your-nose: Regardless of what you call these beads, I am THRILLED to have bought BUCKET LOADS of the little plastic cylinder-shaped beads. I spent countless hours in the 80s making coasters for my parents, grandparents and other unsuspecting View Post
There is no way to discuss toddlers without mentioning their tantrums: the characteristic “fish out of water” flopping on the floor, kicking feet, screaming and thrashing body from side to side tantrums. We all agree, these meltdowns ONLY happen during inopportune times - and ONLY our kids have them View Post
No matter how many sticker charts you have, incentives and even bribes, you STILL need to put him in diapers at night. Here's your help to stop bedwetting! Congratulations! Your toddler is now potty trained. The little cherub happily wears big-kid underwear throughout the day, and proudly and View Post
Motherhood is part creating attachment and equal parts detaching, ever so lovingly - at JUST the right time. Today I witnessed a beautifully executed loving detachment, made possible by a mutually strong attachment. This miracle happened because I used a incredibly simple (and effective) solution to View Post
As the mother of four, there are a few things I have learned and am reminded of on a daily basis. First and foremost, little boys have poor aim, they just do. The things that are favorites today are considered poisonous tomorrow. Last but not least, you are not “better at” parenting just because you View Post
It was a blistering cold winter’s eve in 1978. The littlest land of fairytales (Denmark) was full of happy people. Each and every person in the country was snuggled in their beds, ready for a nice long hibernating night’s sleep. Well, almost every person. There were four people awake - wide awake, View Post
One of my favorite parenting bloggers, Nina V. Garcia from Sleeping Should be Easy recently wrote her first parenting book: Parenting with Purpose: How to Raise Well-Behaved Children and Build a Strong Parent-Child Relationship. I am so excited to share the book with you, as I know it will truly View Post
Last week was rough. It was one of those weeks that will go down in the family’s history books as “a crappy” week! We will refer to it as “the great stomach bug of 2015” years from now. This virus was especially hard on baby Jonah. The only thing he could keep down was breastmilk. The only thing he View Post
This week was peppered with long to-do lists, some frustration, LEGO covered floors and not a lot of progress. It was simply one of those weeks where I ran around in the hamster wheel and got nothing accomplished. I could have beaten myself up over it, or… I could say “to heck with it all… it’s time View Post
Americans are busy people. We run to and fro at a high rate of speed. We over-schedule our days all in an effort not to miss anything. We thrive on productivity, a concept that is often confused with “a lot of harried movement.” As a culture we unfortunately no longer value “downtime”/ “free time” View Post
I was recently prompted by Today’s Parenting Team to write an article about moms judging moms. This is a topic that irks me to no end and there are as many stories as there are moms. Thankfully I have over the years learned to shut my ears to negative judgmental chatter, only to focus on the View Post