Ages + Stages

I have three children. A daughter who is almost 11 and two sons, one who is 9 and one who is 6. I cried when the ultrasound tech told me that my third child was to be a boy....

  It's bound to happen. They can strike at any moment, in any setting, at any time. The minute the words slip out of their mouth your head drops and you try to avoid eye contact with any other grown-up...

To all the moms who have the little girls in braids, I bow down to you because.... I am that mom who has the little girl in ratty hair. Hair that looks like it hasn’t been washed in days. (This is...

Let’s just say that 2014 was an interesting year for me. And, by interesting, I mean, “Dear God, please don’t let me have another year like that any time soon.” Less than two months after giving birth to my...

Going into my fifth pregnancy--fourth birth--I considered myself an expert level of parent. I have dealt with everything you can imagine, including a child vomiting poop. (Yes, that can happen and yes, it happened in my kitchen!) I have...

Well! You are 9 months and one week old, and you are also 40 WEEKS old…you’re as old as I was pregnant! (Well, technically, I was 41 weeks with you, but you know. Close enough.) It’s crazy to think that...

As someone born in 1978 I have always lumped myself in with Generation X. But apparently the group of us born between 1977 and 1983 just don't quite fit the mold of Generation X. Nor do we fit with...

We’re on the tail end of spring break and man, it was a doozy this year! Not because we didn’t have fun. We had some fun. Not because the weather was cruddy and we were stuck inside. It was actually in...

Sorry, not sorry, for all the transformation posts on my Facebook page.  You see, I'm not doing it for attention or all the comments--positive or negative--I am doing it to be a role model to my children, especially my daughter,...

Through Her Eyes: The Teenage Perspective is a short series highlighting the written works of two young students from Marshall School. During Marshall’s iTerm series, eight writers took a class with teacher (and Duluth Moms Blog contributor) Heather Call...