Red Stick Mom

Whether you are looking for a yummy, healthy sweet treat for the upcoming summer months or you’re looking for a meal replacement shake, you’ve come to the right place. I’ve compiled my top 4 favorite protein shake recipes to share with you. All the recipes are super delicious and include protein so it is more than just a milkshake, though by the taste it'll be hard to believe. Another mega plus is most of these recipes only need 5 ingredients and 5 minutes! You just gather the ingredients, toss it all in a blender, and it is ready to drink. Tips: Buy fruit already frozen Buy sugar-free pudding mix if you are going for low calorie Invest in a personal...

Biting was something that I naively assumed only other parents’ kids went through. My stepson wasn’t a biter, and neither was my now 3-year-old. I just supposed I was one of the lucky moms. That my kids somehow managed to bypass that habit, and I escaped having to deal with this behavior. Well, like with many other things related to motherhood, I was WRONG. At just 19 months our daughter’s little personality already shines through. She is spunky and sassy and oh so adorable. She is the princess of the family and spoiled to the core. She is also a biter. The biting started a few months back at home. She would use it as her way of expressing herself when...

So according to the TikTok generation, Millennials are, like, eww … so old. Which makes me, born on the edge of Gen X and the Millennial generation practically an ancient dinosaur. As a matter of fact, my husband who was born in the same year as I was once attended a seminar at a conference specifically curated to teach its audience how to deal with Millennials in the workplace. Spoiler alert: don’t criticize them too much and give lots of praise were the main takeaways. My younger sister is firmly in the Millennial camp and was fervently clutching her pearls the other day as my almost 14 year old daughter was giggling over the latest attack on our side parts...

There's been a shift in me, a change in my heart. I reach out. I initiate. I reach out every day to my tribe. Only a year ago I built a tribe. My very own tribe. I hadn't grown up with the same handful of friends or become besties with college classmates. I was typically the seasonal friend, the friend you needed for a season and move on and stopped needing. And I guess I stopped needing you too. But, not these ladies that I handpicked that make up MY TRIBE. I chat / text / check in with at least one of them everyday. Because I reach out. They reach out to me too. But it's easy for me to...

We got our nugget from my parents for Christmas 2019. I had seen one friend mention getting it for her son on Facebook, and I told my mom I thought it would be a fun gift for my boys for Christmas. This was before I really saw all the hype surrounding them and the demand for them skyrocketed. Now there are waitlists, lotteries and backorders…or people selling them in Facebook groups for double the price. When you go to Google and type “nugget,” the first thing that pops up is their website.In case you don’t know what a nugget is, let me explain. According to their own website, the nugget is “the infinitely configurable play couch made up of...