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Gift Guide for the Teenage Boy (straight from their lips to this list!)
OK, you asked for it, the gift guide for the teenage boy! I asked them, and they delivered. Also how cute are they (please note, the smaller boy contributed to his own gift guide for tweens also coming soon) The older boy said these gifts will “spark joy” in any boy either because they…
Read MoreMigraine Free Holiday!
OK, so who wants a migraine free holiday season? Do I have another migraine fighting tip for you! I am always looking for something that is going to help us fight our migraines around this joint. And during the holidays, it seems we are all more prone to them. It can’t be all the eating…
Read More12 Gifts Your Teenage Girls Want This Holiday Season
I present you with 12 gifts your teenage girl wants this holiday season! How do I know these are gifts your teenage girls most likely want? Because this list is curated from things my girls actually asked for or ordered for themselves from Amazon. Sooooo….these should knock it out of the park! My heart melted…
Read MoreHoliday Help
We are about to enter the crazy season known as THE HOLIDAYS. I don’t know about you, but I love to make all the things and do all the things but I can sometimes get super overwhelmed. The worst days for me are when I am baking all day, finally clean up the giant…
Read MoreLost and Found No More…
Have you all seen the disaster that is the lost and found at your kid’s school? Ours is legit overflowing by day two with all the things and by December there are enough items to clothe my kid and 10 others, not to mention the 25 water bottles, all the pairs of prescription glasses, the…
Read More4 Things Our High School Kids Need to Hear As They Graduate
As I watch my sweet almost grown babies, I can see my time with them growing shorter. I have so much left to say, but there are just a few things I think they need to hear as they take those first tentative steps into adulthood. The end of high school is a whole thing…
Read MoreYou’ve Got This My Friends, I Wish I Would Have Known I Did Too
I remember sitting on the floor, legs crossed watching our babies play. We were all so tired, so in love with these babies, trying so hard to figure out these lives we were now in that we couldn’t have dreamed of a year ago. We were moms. And we were figuring it out together. As…
Read MoreThe Ghost of my LIttles Followed Me Through Target Today
The ghosts of my littles shopped with me today at Target. They were somehow there at every turn. I wandered the aisles and all at once the princess dresses brought me to tears. Because the spirits of my little girls were dancing around my legs begging for all the things in lispy voices, their hair…
Read MoreBack to School with Name Bubbles
When my kids were little I scoured the interwebs for cute name labels to label all of the things. And on top of that, we had so many matching things…double Webkinz (who remembers these?), matching Nerf Guns, not to mention when back to school hit and we somehow needed to write names on roughly a…
Read MoreTeachers Your Work Is So Good
Last night at the end of graduation, as kids were preparing to move their tassels and toss up their hats, the principal announced each student had a white envelope in with their diplomas. In that envelope was a handwritten note from one of their teachers. Each teacher had taken the time to make sure every…
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