Like most of you, I was excited to start 2020. Things were going well at work, our oldest’s dance competition season was getting ready to start and one of our sons was going to play lacrosse for the first...
A while back, I read about an old high school teacher quitting after being accused of inappropriate behavior with students. I wasn’t surprised, because it instantly flung me into a memory in his classroom.
It was after school; I was...
I never felt hats looked good on me. Either they were too big, too small, or simply accentuated features that didn’t need to be seen. Sunglasses have always been more my cup of tea.
Enter marriage and motherhood, two events...
As an elder millennial, my audio book experience has been books on tape; cassette tapes. Big, bulky, sets of cassette tapes.
Fall of 2023, we purchased a new car, leaping forward from our previous 2011 model. One of the features...
Dear Friends,
Don’t @ me on my parenting. Don’t tag me wordlessly on a Facebook article, or an Insta post, or send me a link to some blog where someone says something that completely contradicts my parenting. Just stop, please.
Look,...
The other day I asked my 6-year-old to clean up her craft mess and after a couple minutes of back and forth where she tried to negotiate, she responded, “Enough, MOM! I’ve had it with your mouth!”
Now after...
If I parent perfectly, then my perfect children who started this life as perfect newborns will continue to be perfect, right? Their ability to be perfect people in this world must hinge solely on my ability to parent -...
It's safe to say that my oldest son has been looking forward to his sixth birthday party since the day after his fifth. Planning the theme, dreaming of cakes, and talking about how much fun he was going to...
December brings a certain magical chill to the air, then almost as if it's overnight, there are twinkle lights everywhere, the aisles are flooded with all things merry, and carols play from every speaker that ever existed. It’s ‘the...
Peter Cottontail, you better go on hopping down some other bunny trail if you try to bring me this stuff.
That terrible Easter grass that gets all over the place. Nobody likes that. You know the toddler is going...
Motherhood will change you in ways you never knew possible, and you'll undoubtedly learn a thing or two along the way. I myself realized there are so many things I didn't know before I became a mom!
These are the...
It’s that time of year. The time when we all gather and celebrate the holidays and, oftentimes, that means we get lots of feedback from our families about our children. While celebrating the holidays and new year with our...
Unbelievably, the child I just gave birth to is about to turn 3-years-old. As we are approaching her birthday, I thought it would be fun to interview her about some of her favorite things.
Most of her responses were completely...
He was 6 months behind what he should have been in learning to crawl, 6 months behind when he should have been walking, so when he couldn't talk, I thought he just needed 6 months to catch up. Little...
In + Around Dayton
Bloom :: An Event for Moms! {2024}
Bloom is an event for new and expecting moms, foster moms, and adoptive moms (recommended for any mom up to toddler age!), and other...
