Get it Done
It is amazing how fast a self imposed deadline can sneak up on you every week. It doesn’t matter really. I don’t have a huge following; no one is dependent on my writing for anything, and the whole idea of my website is purely hobby. However, I committed...
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...
Dear Online Mom Friends
I am in ALL the mommy facebook groups. If you’re in any of them too, this is for you. This is an open letter exposing my secrets (and maybe yours) so we can upgrade our fun relationship to the next level of awesomeness and security. We all know or...
Children: The Excuse for Hospitality
“You can go away now.” Says my extremely hospitable 3 year old to our JUST arrived guests. “Yeah… this is why we host.” I think with an eye roll. My toddlers always seem to say the rudest things to the guests they anticipate with delight. But really, how else...
Back-to-School Tips: (When your kids are too little for school)
Have you ever seen, “The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring”? The first 5 minutes of the movie always gives me chills. Galadriel is speaking in the beautiful Elvish language, pouring slowly like a decanted wine. “(I amar prestar aen.)The world...
Call to Arms
As I’ve mentioned in previous blogs: “Ambition bred from discontentment is a dangerous journey leading to more discontentment.” I want to expound on this: there is always SOMETHING that triggers ambition and calls you to action. My thoughts lean toward the idea that...
Nighttime Parenting
This too shall pass. (My thoughts during a difficult parenting DAY.) But it shan’t. And I’ll never sleep again and be miserable forever. (My thoughts during a difficult parenting NIGHT.) There is nothing quite like the early parenting years of being in a constant...
Budget Must Have
In 2014 the typical middle class American household earned $53,657 while the median income throughout the world was roughly $10,000. Wouldn’t Americans be able to be quite generous with that massive surplus above what more than half the world makes do with? Let’s...
Real Life Meal Planning
It’s that time of day again. It comes everyday, rain or shine. As consistent as taxes. As ignorable as a splinter stuffed paper cut soaked in lemon juice with rubbed in salt. Dinner time. I have 3 children and a hardworking husband, and I might deserve a...
My name is Katelyn.
I inhale reality and exhale ideals, spilling the half-full glass on my way to explain myself.
I adore nonsense about as much as my husband adores utility: the happiest medium being our fridge magnets: which are cat butts.
