Me: Abbi, please go wash your hands and face if you’re done eating. Her: Ok. Bathroom door shuts. Thirty seconds later, the door opens and she strolls out. Me: Abbi, did you wash your hands and face? Her: Yup!

Conversation with the 5 year old… Abbi: Mom, what time will Bri be here? Me: 9:30. Abbi: When will it be nine thirty? Me: Well, go look at the clock and tell me what numbers you see.

It’s 5pm. Our normal routine begins. I grab the phone to text my husband… me: Any ideas on dinner tonight? him: Not sure. What are you thinkin? me: I don’t know. Anything you’re craving? (this is where we throw out ideas to each other until something sounds good — that I also have all the [...]

It’s no secret:  my youngest child is my challenge!  And when it comes to food, oh boy does she like to make that challenge unbearable!  I’m not sure if it’s her age (2 years old) or if it’s just her personality, but every single meal lately has been a battle. It doesn’t matter what meal [...]

Ah yes, potty training.  Every parent has to go through it but how we go through it completely independent upon the parent, the child, and the circumstances at that particular time.  It amazes me how different it was to potty train my oldest in comparison to my youngest.  So, I’m wondering….what are your potty training [...]

This is more of a “Me Confession” than a “Mommy Confession” but it something I wanted to talk about for a while, nonetheless. Public Bathrooms. They completely freak me out. It’s really has nothing to do with thought that the bathroom might be filthy or stink like something died in their or even the looking [...]

It’s one of the best moments as a parent — hearing your child’s first word!  Especially if it is some version of “mom”!  We spend so much of their first year or so trying to get them to say words, words that we can understand, words that make us proud.  Then we spend the next [...]

Let’s just get this out there…Zoe is 20 months old and she still takes a bottle. I’ll give you a minute or two to gasp, think ill thoughts, and throw around the questions of how on Earth I could let her still take a bottle. Done?  Great. Let’s continue. I’ll start with the fact that [...]