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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]