Ages & Stages

As the humidity of summer is finally starting to break, I start to get excited for fall and the traditions that we have created as a family. The kids are back to school and getting into a routine, the...

Short, sweet and warm. That’s how I would describe this past winter’s family getaway, and one that is quickly becoming a family tradition. In addition to dealing with winter’s wrath of snow, ice and bitter cold, my family finds winters...

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It was day four of my postpartum journey after delivering my first daughter via c-section. I was sitting at my dining room table. It should have been like any other dinner with my husband, but it wasn't. This time,...

  Life is filled with all kinds of experiences. Most of us are fortunate that the bulk of those experiences are positive, if not altogether wonderful. But life wouldn’t be life if tough times didn’t exist at all. Illness, moving,...

My littlest baby, Nolan, turned 1 on November 13, coincidentally during Prematurity Awareness Month. He was born four weeks early and spent one week in the NICU. This was one of the hardest weeks of my life. After suffering the...

It seems like there is a day to celebrate everything these days, from National Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19) to National Single Parent Day (March 21). Some of these days seem a little more bizarre than others...

When I entered college, I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to do. Yes, at a ripe old age of 18, I had 'direction'! Truthfully, as a child of my immigrant parents, you had to have...

Having children, a dog, and a home to take care of shouldn’t limit who you are as a woman. Be limitless.  I didn’t notice it right after I got married. I was still independent, working a 9-5 job. It was...

Let me paint a little picture for you. It's a beautiful, unseasonably warm Saturday, and hundreds of girls are in brightly colored t-shirts, running up and down the fields. Moms and dads are in those folding beach chairs cheering...