Parenting Wisdom

{GIVEAWAY} Heart-Hugs is a specialty babywearing and natural parenting store based in Colorado Springs. Heart-Hugs provides a wide variety of carriers and parenting products and strives to help parents enhance the special bonds that they share with their little ones. As...

My first baby potty trained in just a day.  She was just short of two years old, woke up one morning, and told us she was tired of wearing diapers and wasn’t going to do it anymore.  She had...

It’s that time of year again, and mothers everywhere are scouring Pinterest for the latest trendy family photo ideas. Now, let me just clarify that I have nothing for you if that’s what you’re looking for. You see, today...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year… right? The holiday season is always so busy: holiday programs here, parties there, gifts for teachers, gifts for neighbors; not to mention trying to squeeze in lights, trees, cocoa, cookies, and...

Don’t judge… but, I’m a bit of a true crime junkie. I’m often watching true crime TV shows, like Snapped and Dateline. I like reading true crime novels and I follow crime-related news stories. Sometimes, I think that I...

If our walls could talk... They would have plenty to discuss. The walls would begin to tell you how we live in chaos. That this house gets dirty, like dishes piled up higher than the faucet, dirty. Toys strewn from...

{GIVEAWAY} It finally feels like Summer in the Springs! After months of rain and days of indoors, we are ready for some beautiful days, fun in the sun, and the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo! Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is America’s ONLY mountain zoo. Large...

I saw this tweet about meals recently from the comedian Simon Holland:  And I laughed out loud because that’s my life right now. And maybe yours!  ‘Tis the season for sports practice, marching band, tutoring, games, concerts, club meetings, religious activities,...

I was eating out with my daughters recently when we noticed another mom with two little boys dressed in costumes: the little one Spiderman and his older brother a SWAT team member. Both were very committed to their characters...

Today, my 2 year old had half of a granola bar for breakfast and then part of a cookie. I also let her cry for a few minutes in her room while I finished getting myself ready for the...