Parenting feels a bit overwhelming sometimes. I mean, it’s hard to really know if you’re doing an amazing job or screwing up your kids for life. Have a parenting problem? Just Google it and you’ll find about 1.3 million results in 2.4 seconds sharing completely different ways that are the “perfect” solution to your parenting problem. You [...]
Archives for August 2015
Best Toys and Resources for Military Kids During Deployment
Beyond parenting military kids during a deployment, there are tons of toys, products and resources that can offer that little bit of extra support. As I recently shared, I frequently get questions about how to best help military kids during a deployment both on my Facebook page and via email. A huge thank you to all the military spouses [...]
Best Tips for Parenting Military Kids During Deployment
Parenting military kids during deployment presents a unique set of challenges. Readers often message me via my Facebook page or email asking for help and a list of deployment parenting strategies for military kids. To be honest, I'm far from expert myself as our son is just old enough to really sense the impact of daddy being gone. *post [...]
10 Problems Only a Woman in Her Third Trimester Would Understand
I honestly cannot think of anything more unglamorous than third trimester pregnancy problems. You finally make it through the first trimester after thinking that for sure you were going to curl up in a ball and die from the overwhelming nausea. You overcame the pregnancy fatigue while caring for a toddler with those amazing bath toys for [...]
The Deployment Diet No One Talks About
You always hear these stories about military wives transforming their lives with healthy eating during deployment. They lose all this weight, look more incredible than you ever thought was possible, and make you wonder how they did it all. But then there’s a secret group of spouses who maintain the type of military wife deployment diet [...]
How to Encourage a Military Spouse (when she needs it most)
I’ve been hearing a lot of stories lately about military spouses feeling sad, defeated, and quite frankly drained from military life. Blogger Jennifer Smith shared it recently in a post called I Didn’t Sign Up for This. In the post she writes, “I was devastated. Where were all these welcoming wives I had been told of? Where was my call [...]
3 Things You Learn Savoring the Moment with Your First Born
It’s hard to say exactly when my heart turned into an epic pile of mush, but I’m pretty sure it occurred somewhere between my husband leaving for a 3 month work trip and my pregnancy hormones ramping up half-way through the second trimester. It hit me all of a sudden: My son would no longer be my only child. In a few short months he will [...]
The Day I Finally Decided to Be a Selfish Mom
It had been two years. TWO YEARS. Yes, I’m shouting that at you right now because two years is a really long time in my opinion. Before I became a mom, I swore up and down that I wasn’t going to be THAT mom. THAT mom who couldn’t leave her kids to take some time for herself. THAT mom who never got a babysitter. THAT mom who thought no [...]
How to Help Kids Sleep After Traveling
From something as simple as daylight savings time to something as challenging as international travel, time changes are tough adjustments for most kids. I often laugh when I struggle to even move my son’s schedule by a one hour time difference. Trying to get kids to sleep when you want is an awesome way to feel totally inept as a human [...]
What Really Goes Down on an International Flight with a 2-Year-Old
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to travel internationally with kids, you’re in the right place because I’m going to tell you. When our family first moved to Okinawa, Japan I swore up and down I was never going to leave the island until my husband’s tour was finished. It's hard to tame temper tantrums at home, let alone when [...]