Several months ago, one of my 11 year old daughter’s equine-obsessed friends introduced her to a website called Howrse.com. On this site, users breed horses and ponies and manage their own personal equestrian centers. It didn’t sound very interesting to me, but after checking out the site for myself and making it clear to my daughter that she […]
September 24, 2015
If you’d asked me a few years ago whether my kids would ever have a screen time problem, I would’ve assured you that in this house, screen time would never be an issue. After all, I’d read all the articles about how harmful too much screen time can be to a child’s development. I’d seen […]
September 1, 2015
Dear Teachers, As the end of the school year approached a few months ago, my Facebook feed began to fill with all of your jubilant updates, which mostly consisted of stuff like this… I laughed right along with you, teachers. You deserved a break! And the truth was, I was glad to be getting my […]
August 5, 2015
When I had my first child, I couldn’t wait to enjoy all the perks that came with being a new mom. After all, I’d spent nine long months anticipating my baby’s arrival- It was time to get this parenting show on the road! And so, almost immediately, I started taking my tiny daughter to story times. And puppet shows. […]
July 23, 2015
For several years now, my son has begged us to to buy him a trumpet. At first, we thought the request was a passing fancy, sort of like his plans to build a walking, talking robot out of old batteries and cereal boxes, or his dreams of opening a bookstore in our home filled with books he’d written, […]
July 9, 2015
Disney’s Newsies is playing now through Sunday at the Tennessee Center for Performing Arts (tickets are still available!), and and then moving on to other theaters across the country. We got to see the musical on opening night and it has one of the strongest casts I’ve seen in a touring show- Literally every singer and dancer […]
May 28, 2015
Summer is approaching fast and as always, one of my top priorities is to keep my kids reading while they’re out of school. One thing I’ve learned as a parent is that kids generally don’t just LOVE TO READ all on their own- It’s up to us to help make it fun and appealing, and luckily I’m getting […]
May 19, 2015
When my son was born, I gave him the blog nickname of ‘Bruiser’ based purely on how he made my insides feel during the last few months of my pregnancy. Fortunately, the name was a perfect fit. Today, the kid loves sports and action games, playing outside with his buddies and wrestling with his father. He perpetually has […]
April 14, 2015
“Have you seen the nest?” my husband asked me one morning a few weeks ago. “Which one?” I replied. We’re in the middle of a banner bird season here in Nashville– The high-pitched chirps of baby birds wake me bright and early every morning, and bits of robins’ blue egg shells are currently strewn across […]
June 24, 2014
Not too many month-old infants can be seen out on the town. New moms will tell you they’re keeping their newborns at home because they don’t want to expose them to germs or pollutants or strangers with open sores all over their bodies who ask to hold them (which is, no lie, exactly what happened […]
April 9, 2007
