The start of the New Year is a natural time to consider and set personal objectives. We are going to discuss how to plan healthy meals for your family. As parents, it’s a terrific time to talk about the importance of exercise and a healthy diet plus teach kids the importance of setting goals. But when it comes to living a healthy lifestyle, family support is crucial for success.
There’s power in numbers. Sitting together … Read the rest
Preparing a “pandemic pantry” to stay home for those weeks is not an easy feat for anybody, particularly novice dieters and cooks.
The CDC recommends having a minimum of two week supply of food in your home. Health authorities advise staying home, if at all possible, and putting six feet between you and someone else in practice known as “social distancing.”
Governments around the world have been in a race to stem the spread of … Read the rest
Well, as it happend I blew up at my children the other day and amazingly fast they figured out how to have their own fun. It was one of those moments when we as parents reach our limit and need to let off some steam (each weekend), I proposed to (shouted at) my two children that maybe it was time to switch off all electronics and go play outside. Like right now!
“Only dull people … Read the rest
Nobody informed me that parenthood would be so physical. It is like a full-on attack on the soul and the body, each day. It takes its toll, and I am not talking bags under eyes, droopy boobs and the certain additional pounds around the middle.
Five years of lugging an infant, then a toddler, around on hip or my shoulder –have wrecked my neck, vertebrae, and rotator cuff. Pains and aches aside, it occurred to … Read the rest
Try something different this year, think passed jewelry or some personal items as gifts this Mother’s Day. Instead, make a contribution to honor the name of your mom.
“Organizations that might be especially meaningful to Mom this year are those that support mothers and daughters everywhere,” stated Elanor F. Williams, Assistant Professor, Marketing Department Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. “A donation made on your mum’s name to a pro-women society taps into … Read the rest
“She will never remember life before her brother,” everybody tells me once I begin to allow the guilt of ending your only child years seep in. “To him, it will always have been this way.”
I know they are right, and their assurances provide me comfort in those quiet moments when I feel the rush of guilt stronger than any other emotion I could recognize. However, the fact that you won’t remember our time before … Read the rest
Last week, my husband and I went out for a date night while my parents saw our boys for a couple of hours. It was the first time in quite a while that we had gone out just the two of us though we try to do something without children at least once per month; it often ends up being dinner with another couple, an adult-only wedding or drinks with friends.
As we sat … Read the rest
In my prior post about the KonMari Method, as advised by Marie Kondo at The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Organizing and Decluttering, I spoke about embarking on a decluttering program that finally got my chaotic house once and for all. In case you haven’t gone through it, here’s a recap:
Right off the bat, I wanted to let you know I was not paid or perked for writing this post in any way. I asked me to write about it and bought the book myself. I just wanted to share my adventures with anyone who’ll listen since I feel completely changed by this process. I think some of you will find it helpful, too.
As I am sitting here writing this, there are two bits … Read the rest
If you follow Melissa from Pick-Ease on Instagram, you will see the pictures of her children using Pick-Ease, and you may be intrigued by how it would work for a young toddler who was between self-feeding phases. If you want your children to develop the excellent motor skills necessary for spoon and fork manipulation, but he or she is easily frustrated with his inability to nourish himself and gives up quickly each time, the Pick-Ease… Read the rest
Now, many of my fellow New Englanders are jammed in the house today what with terrible snowstorm bearing down on us. I, for one, have loved every second of it since my husband must stay home from work today and I’ve sort of reason to wear pajamas all day.
Some of the other mothers might feel differently, what with having bored and restless children that require something to occupy them while the mothers catch up … Read the rest
It’s 1:00 PM on a Sunday; I am applying my makeup after a bath when I hear my son’s significant whining downstairs. Yet, in my towel and not interested on running through our mostly curtainless house to make a bottle and haul my overtired child back up the staircase to his room, I choose to wait for a few minutes.
My husband is with him, he can take care of it. I got blush … Read the rest
A dear friend of mine is sharing her firstborn experience here as my mommy blog guest. This overwhelming tiredness or borderline depression is something that can happen to any of us, and some of us are blindsided by our feelings.
Hopefully, you do not have to deal with any of this, but I wanted to raise the awareness of postpartum depression so you can recognize the signs.… Read the rest
Often times, I serve my son natural fruit beverages that I make in my blender; he also eats Lucky Charms coated in artificial flavors which are stuck into my dirty floor.
Occasionally I wake up before my son, bath and get dressed in something besides sweatpants, appearing halfway acceptable if I should proceed to leave the boundaries of my home; occasionally I opt for stretchy waist trousers, use deodorant rather than a bath and cancel … Read the rest
