Making a Scene
Have you ever seen anything like this go down at your local store? It happened to me a few years ago… I was standing in the cleaning supply aisle at Target, watching her. I hadn’t meant to stare, but the early morning shopping quiet had been shattered with the...
Gratitude Attitude
Nothing says teaching your kids how to be gracious and thankful like snarling, “I SAID, say THANK YOU!” a thousand times a day. Perhaps THAT is the sentiment that gets into my little Lainy when recently, after I spent an hour searching for her lost sippy cup,...
Demanding Toddlers
I am so proud of my 2-year-old daughter I could scream. Not my normal scream: my normal scream is usually a mix of panic, desperation, and unbelief at whatever a toddler has climbed, eaten, hit, thrown, snuck, or destroyed. No, the scream I feel welling up inside me...
Kid’s Book Rant: Green Eggs and Ham
Book Title: Green Eggs and Ham Author: Dr. Suess Recommend: Highly R A N T Do you ever zone out when you’re driving, and then all of a sudden snap out of your daydream and realize you’ve gone 5 miles in the right direction, with no knowledge of having actually driven...
Parenting Solutions
A quest for the Holy Grail! Such is the journey for the best parenting solutions I read every parenting book ever written for the best tried and true wisdom. Really, I am searching for the silver bullet, the perfect puzzle piece to forever make complete the insanity...About Me
* I met my husband at IHOP (the pancake house)
* I love roller coasters but hate "rides"
* I am an ISFJ if that means anything to you