When my daughters were young, I never had to worry about how much time they were playing video games or watching television because I was always in the room with them. Now as they are getting older and more independent, we have more televisions in our house than we have people and video games in […]
Free Mommy Contact Cards
It seems like every time I am out somewhere with my kids we run into friends of theirs from school and the same thing always happens. The kids get to talking and want to plan to get together. The moms and I try to exchange information. “Do you have an email account?” “Do you text?” […]
Life with a Chronically Ill Child (Guest Post)
Children don’t always come into the world perfect. My youngest of four children certainly didn’t. Nick was born with a horribly malformed heart. After a heart surgery at five days old, another at three months, another at one year old, he received a heart transplant just before turning two. Today, he is twenty one and […]
The Treasures of Reading With Your Kids (Guest Post)
With four kids I do a lot of reading. I’ve taught each one of them to read with phonics my way. However, as they outgrew the phonics program we started to read together each night. I realized that reading together can do more than just benefit your kids – it benefits me as a parent. […]
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Shirts
One of the hottest book series for pre-teens and teens this year is Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Not only is the book series on fire, but a Percy Jackson and the Olympians movie is set to be released soon. The series is a mixture of fantasy and adventure, based on Greek Mythology. Some of […]