Having house guests is always fun. Lots of quality time, lots of laughs, and lots of extra hands to steer your children away from the stove. The challenging part is the preparation leading up to guest arrival day. When you have little ankle biters trying to thwart your cleaning, shopping, and organizing efforts, the challenge…
Every family has one. Okay maybe you don’t have a matchbook urn specifically, but you have something weird that your family has just accepted as truth. A wonky toilet that won’t flush unless you jiggle the handle just right. A squeaky stair that everyone just skips over at this point. A family recipe for a…
1 out of 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage. That miscarriage statistic is staggering, and brutal. And it’s a statistic I had never heard until I was sitting in a doctor’s office with my world crashing down around me. 10 minutes earlier I had been picking out names and excitedly awaiting the first glimpse of my…
Inside: Wacky holidays that will have you celebrating every single day! Did you know that October 15th is National Flex Day? It’s a whole day to celebrate and promote flexible work arrangements! Also, September 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day, because why not? Read on for more wacky holidays and why they are worth…
Inside: Lessons learned from a garage baby doll that you might think of as we creepy, and we think of as family. Which is creepy. My husband and I moved into our house in 2011. Since that time we have made our house our own, managed through it’s idiosyncrasies, and thoroughly enjoyed the fact that…