I haven’t been this excited about a new household trick in long time. Did you know you can use Dawn dish soap to pre-treat a stain? On my way downstairs to the laundry, I pass right by our kitchen sink and Dawn dish soap every day. I head down to use overpriced stain removers on my kids clothes. My kids… Read More

With Maggie, my first baby, my hospital bag was packed by the time I reached full term. She didn’t come until 41 weeks, so I was prepared in plenty of time. Actually I shouldn’t say my hospital bag, I should be honest and say hospital bags. The only hospital checklist I saw was very long, and I packed every single… Read More

My friend Meghan is pregnant with her first baby and is in the process of searching for daycare. When she was talking to me about it last month, I couldn’t believe she already had to look! The baby is due in December and won’t be heading to daycare until about March. I had no idea you had to look so… Read More

I wrote this post as part of my participation in a blog tour for The Motherhood on behalf of the makers of Children’s MOTRIN® and received compensation to thank me for taking the time to participate. However, all opinions expressed are my own. Moms are unstoppable. Part of being unstoppable as a mom, is taking inspiration and tips from other… Read More

I had much bigger plans for this summer – a giant bucket list actually. I love to travel, from day trips to international adventures, and although young, my girls have become quite the travelers. By the start of summer, we had reached a place, for the first time since having kids, where no one needed to nap, no one needed… Read More

With Back to School comes a lot of snacking: snacks inside lunch boxes, after school snacks, snacks to send in for the class, etc. It’s easy to get in a rut of always having the same snacks and it’s also easy to let snacking turn unhealthy. I’ve definitely had weeks where I’m sure we’ve snacked on pretzels and fruit snacks… Read More

When it came to breast feeding, I did an “ok” job the first time around, and a slightly better job the 2nd time around. I’m determined to do an even better job the third time around. I honestly think the only problem I had the 1st two times was that I didn’t ask anyone any questions. I just assumed it… Read More

Parenting can be pretty messy. If there’s one thing that I’ve certainly become a lot more “ok” with over the past 4 years, it’s mess (with less sleep as a close 2nd). Before kids my house clean, the laundry was perfectly folded and at the end of the day, my clothes were stain free. Now, my house rarely looks clean,… Read More

With “back to school”, comes planning school lunches and also lots of after school snacks!  My kids always come home from school hungry! This year, Alex will get out of school right around lunch time and eat lunch at home, but Maggie will get home around 3pm. I know she’ll be ready for a snack right away and Alex will… Read More