Exploring tide pools wasn’t even on my radar. To be completely honest, I just haven’t felt like exploring or even leaving the house lately. Between everything with moving and all the issues we’ve been working through, on top of being gone for 14 hours every day during the Read more
Today I’m sharing a post by guest writer Deeksha Tripathi. A mom from India who shares a love of her kids and learning. I love what she has to say about what she learns every day from her toddler. How many of you can relate lol! Enjoy and give her Read more
So as I was perusing my Facebook feed this morning on the way to work, I came across this post by Karena Smith on gentle guidance of our children- gentle, not permissive: I originally saw it in our “Gentle Christian Parenting: A respectful/non-punitive parenting community” Facebook group and she kindly Read more
So I don’t know about you, but I find planning budgeting so incredibly difficult even when I was single. I have even gone through Financial Peace University and I was able to pay off so much debt before I ended up moving to PA to get my art certification and Read more
It’s amazing how someone with so little life experience can actually teach us so much. Kids, so unfettered by life’s hard lessons. Unjaded by the fears and failures of past experiences. They are pure. Their day-to-day life is pretty much the definition of a Growth Mindset. So what did Read more
There, I’ve said it. I. Am, Struggling. 2018 just has not been my year and we’re only 3 months in! So far my year has consisted of: Being told our lease was being terminated with no explanation. Having to figure out where to get the money to move because Read more
The Best Parenting Advice Recently a mom in one of my parenting groups on Facebook (there is a group for everything these days and I learn so much from others around the world!) was asking what moms wished they’d been told before becoming a mom. This is a pretty common Read more
Picture this. Last night at dinner we were having shrimp and veggies, Boogie was mostly just trying really hard to drop his food from as high up in the air as his arm could go and I was trying, in vain, to keep it together after painting all Read more
Kung Hei Fat Choi! Lunar New Year, aka Chinese New Year (even though other asian cultures celebrate this time too), is a huge deal here in Hong Kong. The only way I can describe how big this celebration is to Americans is that it’s like Christmas, Independence Day, and Thanksgiving Read more
I don’t know about you, but before I became a parent, heck before I even got pregnant, I thought I at least had the “big stuff” figured out. I by no means thought I knew everything, I’ve worked with kids long enough to know that’s never possible, but I did Read more