This photo has everything: -Mom dressed in baggy clothes. -Three kids gathered around the kitchen table doing crafts. -Mom looking anxious about Easter egg dyeing. -Cluttered bulletin board and mom calendar. -Kids’ crafts stuck to kitchen window. I took no…
Category: Musings on Family
Do You Love Live Music? Music Events, Concerts, Festivals, and More
When my oldest was in high school, I drove my teen and a friend to a music festival just outside Baltimore, Maryland. I wasn’t thrilled about it. Seemed dangerous. The festival was all day. My mom spide-y sense was on…
Gift Guide: Summer Learning Activities
More often than not, I had kids at three different schools. That’s 3 sets of emails, different days off, multiple health and safety alerts, and a slew of grading notices from three schools. At one time, I had 1 kid…
5 Gifts Your Tween Will Actually Use
When you have tweens, you can forget about strolling the aisles of your local Walmart or Target. While tweens are adamant about what they don’t want, finding what they do want is tough. Tweens do not want toys…of any kind.…
The Finder of Lost Stuff
One of our family mottos is nothing is every lost…missing permanently…but never lost forever. I AM the finder of lost stuff. I usually find whatever it is that is missing in a place where someone (usually me) stashed it for…
5 Post-Surgery Tips for Knee Surgery — Meniscectomy
DH and I both had knee surgery, more specifically a meniscectomy, a few years ago. Same knee. Same surgeon. His was a sports injury, mine was not. The key advice from me post surgery is: Follow the doctor’s postop advice…
The College Tour…Swimmer Style
My freshman and I scoped out pools and athletic facilities at colleges long before my daughter applied to colleges. Even though my 11th grade daughter was closer to looking at colleges, the 9th grader gained insight into what she wanted in…
This Part of My Life Is Called…Rushing
To borrow a line from the Pursuit of Happiness…”This part of my life is called…rushing.” Rushing. Dashing. Flying. Scrambling. These words describe my day-to-day life. I’m a wife…a mom…a work-at-home mom…a taxi driver…a housekeeper…an errand runner….a laundress…a maker of lunches…a…
Gift Guide: The Animals Are Running the World! #zootopia #familymovienight
Disclosure: I was sent a DVD to facilitate my review. The views expressed in this post are my own. Affiliate links are included in this post. I love family movie nights. Any time we can get at least part of…
Musings on Little Ones: Surviving the Toddler Years
When more paint gets on the table, shirt, and pants than on the paper…When your toddler discovers a drum kit at a family member’s home and bashes the living daylights out of it and begs for his own drum set……
