Motherhood

What is Whole30?  The Whole30 is a "reset", not a diet. It's a 30 day program designed to reduce your cravings while improving your metabolism, digestion, and overall health. It's not about weight loss: there's no calorie counting, targeting grams,...

Back to school time means new planners, new backpacks, new shoes, new clothes. It also means new routines, new classes, new teachers, new expectations, new personalities, new activities. New can be really exciting. It can also be extremely overwhelming,...

Winters in Iowa are known to be long and cold and spring tends to be rainy and windy but that doesn’t mean your family has to stay cooped up until it’s nicer out. Little kids have lots of energy...

Over my last few years of reading, I’ve come across a lot of great, conversation-sparking books about the experience of motherhood that I’ve recommended or bought for friends over and over. The books listed relate to the myriad facets of...

I love Halloween. Who doesn’t? Apart from the failed attempts at resisting the candy stash in the weeks leading up to Halloween, having to buy more candy to refill the candy stash that you someone else devoured, the guaranteed bitter...

Just recently, I was at Costco for my weekly grocery run. After unloading my groceries into my van, I noticed a woman in the parking lot struggling to get an awkward shaped, heavy box out of her cart into...

Before kids, diaper changes scared me the most about parenthood. (We can all pause and laugh at a younger me!) I had a weak stomach and dry-heaved when changing litter…how was I going to deal with lots of diapers? Over...

Have you nominated a mom in your life for our "Super Mom" contest yet?  If you haven't, you will want to after you read today's post, when we announce the PRIZE PACKAGE!  Just in case you missed the previous...

Starting kindergarten can be daunting for both students and parents. When my son started kindergarten last fall, one of the hardest things for me was to know what I was supposed to do and when I was supposed to...

Many cultures have a coming-of-age ceremony. A 13-year-old Jewish person has a Bar or a Bat Mitzvah. A young Latina may have a quinceanera. A young man of the Hamar tribe of Ethiopia jumps over a bull. My family is...