Heal Your Relationship with your Middle-Schooler Today
A whole new world!! ….(think Aladdin circa 1990’s) Yup, we’ve moved into Middle-School territory and it is definitely a whole new world. Not a bad world, maybe just an alien-like territory, where I...
View ArticleJerry Seinfeld’s Three Rules of Life
It is no secret that my husband and I love Jerry Seinfeld! We love his show “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” If you haven’t seen it, check it out on Crackle. (He’s got one with President Obama,...
View ArticleWhy you should talk to your kids about their future
Some days I feel like the depth of the conversations I have with my kids are about an inch deep. Do you have any homework? Did you eat your lunch? Did you take a bath? How many times are we intentional...
View ArticleLove Doesn’t Fly Off the Handle
Don’t be fooled by the picture above. We don’t normally look this adorable sitting around eating cupcakes on teeny-tiny pink chairs! Everything in that picture is staged, from the clothes, to the...
View ArticleI think my feet have started puberty
“I think my feet have started puberty,” my son said the other night at dinner. We almost fell out of our chairs laughing. But, he’s right! He’s beginning to stink in all the usual places. Puberty has...
View ArticleWhat to DO when my kids don’t DO what I want them to DO?
What do I do when my kids don’t do what I want them to do? Can you guess what the #1 rule of parenting is? It’s not having a positive mental attitude…though that surely is helpful! It’s not ever losing...
View ArticleThis Thanksgiving…TALK.
This post was inspired by a radio program I heard, yesterday, in the car. The question was, “If you were able to travel back to any time in your life and ask a question to anyone at the Thanksgiving...
View ArticleBuilding Time Together into your Christmas Traditions
I am a big lover of all things Christmas. And, since we have two kiddos, we have made December into Christmas Tradition Central. One of our favorite traditions was picked up by Learn Vest, an awesome...
View Article9 Simple Activities to Keep the Significance in Christmas
This post is inspired by my husband’s message from Sunday. Thank you, babe! 🙂 He was trying to encourage all of us to “get our advent on.” Aka, keep the main thing, the main thing at Christmas. I for...
View Article6 Things Your Middle-Schooler Needs to Know
THAT THEY WILL SEE SOMETHING INAPPROPRIATE: Help them understand that they will have opportunities to see, read, & watch inappropriate things. Give them a head’s up so they aren’t surprised in...
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