Yesterday the New York Times ran a grossly misplaced article in their “Fashion” section about mommy bloggers called Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy.  I’m Too Busy Building My Brand.  It seems the author – a mommy blogger herself – came to a small regional blogging conference under the guise of shooting the breeze, and ended up producing [...]

There’s a lot more Mama Drama rolled into this story, but I’ll give you the short version: 

16yo daughter screwed up, I gave her a 2nd chance – with very clear stipulations attached. 
16yo daughter plowed through stipulations and blew it again, I grounded her for 2 weeks.
Too bad, so sad.  The end.  Or was it?

Now, if this had been maybe even [...]

Looking for a totally discouraging experience?  Follow these proven steps to motherhood angst, and you’ll be on your way!
First:  observe your toddler throwing the most irrational tantrums – knocking down dining room chairs, biting his big brother, hitting the dog, violently pullings plugs out of the wall, and clearing the kitchen counters with huge sweeps [...]

On Friday my 8yo son had the opportunity to participate as a control subject in a research study by the Division of Pediatric Neurology and The Children’s Learning Institute at the University of Texas.  Located downtown at Houston’s world-famous Medical Center complex, we both thought the day-long series of tests, scans, and an MRI would [...]

It’s late, and I know what I want to say, but not how to say it. I’ve had some really ugly and really beautiful moments today – I can’t even wrap my head around the extremes I reached in motherhood over the past 24 hours. But if you follow these three steps, you’ll get an [...]

Twice a year our church region (called a Stake in our church…maybe it’s like a Diocese in the Catholic church?…a Stake is a larger organization comprised of smaller congregational units, or Wards) gathers for what’s called a Stake Conference.  It’s our chance to hear directly from region leaders on matters of greatest spiritual interest to us [...]

I have a new hero in my life:  Cesar Millan. 
Have you heard of him? - The Dog Whisperer?  We recently switched our cable service and while surfing through our 500-ish channels (man, it’s overwhelming!), I landed on Millan’s show on The National Geographic channel and was instantly drawn in to the way he was educating owners on handling [...]

My apologies for this late post; I had meant to do a follow-up to my Managing Our Family Calendar with Cozi.com post by last Friday, but as often happens with busy families, we got very….busy! I did want to make sure and mention a few other things about the Cozi.com site, though – some tools [...]

If you know me or have been reading my blog for a while, you may know that my family and I can get pretty silly.  We love to spend time together making jokes, goofing off, and creating fun memories together.

When I heard that Primrose Schools was sponsoring a Family Dance-Off Video Competition, I immediately thought [...]

In September I was able to attend the Type A Mom blogging conference, where I met Robbie Cape, CEO and President of Seattle-based website Cozi.com, and their Social Media Director, Carol Schiller.  I had already heard a little about Cozi.com through buzz around the blogosphere; the company generously supported many bloggers’ trips to the mega-conference BlogHer. 
Partnering [...]