Allison
Allison is a New Orleans native and moved to Baton Rouge in 2005. She and her high school sweetheart married in 2006 and have two amazing kids, Avery and Bennett. She works full-time as a pediatric Speech Pathologist and feels that these kids are her second family. She believes that parenting truly is the hardest job in world. She is learning everyday how to balance marriage, kids, work and personal time. She enjoys tailgating for LSU events, soaking in New Orleans culture and being outside with friends and family as much as possible. Allison has a passion for long and usually loud talks with friends over good food and wine, loves photography and escaping into a great book.
Why Can’t Kids Talk?
This is not a post about developmental milestones and language development. That will come in due time. Don't you worry.
This is about (use your best granny voice) "Why can't kids these days have a...
A Guilty Pleasure
When did having a "guilty pleasure" become a negative thing? Everyone has a guilty pleasure. Some people enjoy food, coffee, magazines, and/or music.
My Guilty Pleasure is the BRAVO channel. Yes, pretty much the whole channel.
Drinking...
Holiday AH-HA Moment
It’s that time of year again, ladies. You know where our head starts to spin and our bank account begins to deflate. I’m talking about the holidays. I feel the question of “What are...
How Working Works for My Family, Part 1
6:55 am in red letters on the stove clock.
“Kids, let’s go. If we don’t hurry up, we will be late.”
Now I see 7:00 am ... keep calm but we gotta get moving.
“Bennett,...
How Working Works for My Family, Part 2
In Part 1 of my post, I shared our typical day of being a mom and working full-time. Now, I wanted to take some time to go into the reasons why I work, my...