Parenting + Family

  Big changes are happening in our family. Okay, that might be a tad dramatic to say since last year we made an international move and this is nowhere near as exciting. However, we are embarking on a new adventure come...

Living in the aftermath of an Amniotic Fluid Embolism has been really rough, almost worse than the event itself. Looking back, it feels like just a blink but the rest of my reality is a slow drag that never...

Happy Pride Month! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Celebrate pride and the beauty of equality all year round by padding your home library with some great LGBTQ+ children's book recommendations to read with your kids. Storytime before bed is a favorite tradition in our...

I recently read a post in a Facebook group in which a young mom asked, “When do you start to feel like yourself again?” This got me thinking about when I started to feel like “Erin” again in my own...

It begins with Halloween, the costumes, the jack-o-lanterns, spider webs, witches, ghosts, and skeletons.  The pumpkins, leaves, pilgrims, cornucopias, and turkeys of Thanksgiving.  The numerous Christmas trees, stockings, holly berries, wreathes, nativity scenes, and mistletoe.  And the lights.  The...

Mother’s Day. It’s fast approaching, and while my first inclination is to think about the amazingness of getting a day to “sleep in” (lounge in bed half awake while listening to the 2-year-old call for mama from the opposite...

Let's face it, once we move past mourning of the summer season we all get a giddy excitement in the pit of our stomachs. We get to once again send our little ones off on their grand academic adventures....

Over the river and through the woods to Grandmother’s house we go!  Holiday travel season is upon us and that means you will probably be bundling up the kids, packing them in the car and traveling at least a...

I was checking the date of my daughter’s next appointment in her online medical record account and there it was, “failure to thrive”. It was listed in black and white under her current medical problems. I knew in my...

Our summer vacation started the winter before. I needed a book to read out loud to my kids, who were six and not quite two at the time. They were sharing a room and, to be honest, sometimes the only...