Parenting + Family

For the last three summers in particular I have made a conscious effort to not watch the news. Every summer we hear of a few deaths involving children left in cars when temperatures soar and that’s tragic enough. According...

  I've seen a meme floating around for the past couple of years--maybe you've seen it, too. There are three things listed on the meme: clean house, happy kids, and your sanity. The caption reads: "You can only have two."...

It's that time of year where your Facebook feed was recently covered in adorable pictures of toddlers in their first day of school outfits heading off to new and refreshing adventures. At first, your heart is overflowing until you...

We took our children, Morgan and Benjamin, on a three week vacation in July of 2002.  Duluth, Minnesota to Portland, Oregon. We had a red Chevy Blazer, 4 suitcases, and a  TV/VCR combo with two sets of head phones....

I Am Always Pushing When my oldest daughter was being born, I remember thinking, "Why didn't we just get another puppy? I'm so tired and I'm never going to sleep again." (This was after three hours of actual pushing.) She...

In a world that is dominated by hand-made, home-made, home-grown, made from the heart; gifts, cards, valentines, invites, and all the other things that wind up in my kids cubby at school, I stick out like a sore thumb. This...

Time. Why does it all have to go by so fast? It's absolutely troubling to me how fast it can escape us when we are not even really aware it is happening. I didn't have a great grasp on...

As someone who talks to students, parents and others about Online Safety and Cyberbullying, I spend maybe a bit more time than the average person thinking about the Internet and Social Media. But, unless you’ve lived under a rock...

Parenthood. It happens. Mommyhood... The dynamic changes. We go from stroller toting, diaper bag carrying, car seat installing, sippy cup schlepping mamas to insurance paying, car loaning, FAFSA filling-out, money lending, wine drinking mothers. (OK, I've always been a...

This year, after wanting to ski the Kortelopet for like, the last decade, I decided that this was the year: Kortelopet 2018. The Kortelopet is a ski race that’s half the distance of the world-class Birkiebeiner and is a...