January 30, 2020 Good report card? Head to Scene 75! When you have a smart kid who isn’t always super motivated to do their best work, sometimes you come up with creative rewards to…
December 16, 2019 Managing Christmas travel with kids With my entire family in Cali and E’s parents in Florida, traveling at Christmas is a fairly common occurrence for us. Although E prefers…
December 12, 2019 4 tips to do more with your family photos If you’re like most people, you have a phone or hard drive overflowing with photos that you haven’t organized or done anything with. Or,…
November 28, 2019 To have a kid… or not I was staunchly childfree by choice for many years before E and I had Z. As a feminist, I was adamant that a woman…
October 30, 2019 4 reasons why 4th grade rocks I started this school year a bit worried and anxious about our 9.5 year old. She had a good summer, despite a major life…
October 14, 2019 Sometimes I suck as a parent I’m a pretty good parent most of the time. Even a great one sometimes! But there are definitely moments when I am not so…
September 16, 2019 Why do kids like s-c-a-r-y things? Our sweet, innocent little 9.5-year-old keeps asking to watch the movie It. She heard about It from schoolmates and has become obsessed with Pennywise…
August 18, 2019 Our week with no screen time This summer, our darling daughter got grounded for a week for behavior unbecoming of a 9 year old living under our roof. Her punishment…
July 30, 2019 Why is she growing up so fast? No one prepared me, yet again, for the crazy amount of emotional and psychological development that happens in female kiddos between 8 and 9….
July 9, 2019 I’m so tired of hearing, “Mom, I’m bored” Can this summer be over soon, please? I am serious. As much as I love the weather, there’s a lot about summer I don’t…
