I used to think knowing my kids was automatic. I made them! Of course I know them. But our kids change constantly, and the parts that change fastest are the parts we can’t see, their fears, their friendships, what they’re proud of, what they’re quietly worried about at eleven o’clock at night. If we’re only…
Connecting with, and showing love to my kids is the most important part of parenting for me. More than anything, I want them to understand that I will always love them unconditionally – no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Countless hours of research have proven the importance of parents unconditionally loving their children. Parental…
Throughout my children’s childhood, at some point, I stopped keeping our children’s books in one big pile and started sorting them by season. It wasn’t really a system. I was just tired of digging past a stack of bunnies to find the one about the ghosts. But the sorting did something I didn’t expect, it…
When I looked up how much real Delft tiles cost, a little piece of my heart died. I’m talking $80 a tile. And I needed over 100 tiles for a whole backsplash. My dream kitchen priced itself right out of my budget before I’d even started. I sat with that disappointment for a while because…
In 2021, we packed up our three little kids and went to Hawaii for three weeks to visit my brother. We were so excited! Three weeks in Hawaii, staying on his incredible property, kids running around outside all day. What could possibly go wrong? Turns out, you can take your family to paradise and still…
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