St. Jude patient Hannah on a virtual dream vacation under the seas. For patients like little Kiara who are battling cancer at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® in Memphis, TN, there are endless days and nights spent just dreaming about all the wonders of the world outside the four walls of their hospital room. Now, thanks to a partnership with Expedia, St. Jude patients will no longer have to just dream, because the world is being brought to them, virtually. St…. Keep Reading
Archives for 2016
Open Letter to College Kids Who Need Safe Spaces- Parenting is Gonna Kick Your Ass
At college campuses all across America our young men and women are being triggered. It’s an epidemic of uncanny stress and the total inability to actually deal with their surroundings brought on by something society has even given a special name to- microagressions. So dangerous are these aggressions and the trauma they trigger, they’re requiring the need for campus safe spaces, on-site therapists, and even mind spas to ensure those fragile few who were triggered don’t leap from a building… Keep Reading
Easter Way Back When
If you were a little girl in the late 70s and early 80s, there is a great chance right about now you are an “OVER IT” mom, and by “over it,” I mean you’re over just about every aspect of childhood being hijacked by commercialism and marketing. Halloween merchandise starts appearing in August, Christmas soon thereafter, and even birthday parties have gotten insane with the idea that stuff, stuff, and more stuff is the norm. Well thank God Easter was… Keep Reading
Adventures with the Instant Pot Pressure Cooker
THE INSTANT POT! OK, let’s just get this out of the way. I am NOT a food blogger and I was not paid to write this. And no, Instant Pot didn’t send me this (my mom did!) This is just regular ‘ol me, a mom with a lot of mouths to feed, writing about how she is loving having a pressure cooker. First, some cooking history. Basically, I figured out pretty early on that with all boys, I was going to… Keep Reading
5 Valentine’s Day Cards My Husband Should Have Really Given Me
My husband is not a flower sender, or a jewelry giver, or chocolate pusher. And that’s all fine by me, because in my world, putting the laundry away and emptying the dishwasher will get you way more action than a bag of Dove Bars. And he knows this (wink wink.) He does, however, give me the loveliest greeting cards. And I mean cards that say the exact right thing at the exact right time. The super sappy, three folded, rose… Keep Reading
13 Signs You Have Kids in Catholic Schools
13 Signs You Have Kids in Catholic School 1. In your house, you’re never more than five feet away from a set of Rosary beds- plastic ones, handmade ones, paper ones, wooden ones. They. Are. Everywhere. 2. Your Halloween costume box includes the robes of 5 well known saints. 3. Your kids have 25 adjectives to describe the smell of incense. 4. On dress down days, they spend hours of time and thought into deciding what to wear to school…. Keep Reading