My husband has three siblings, two (soon to be in-laws), one nephew, and about a dozen extended family members all living in Baton Rouge. My biological family is scattered across the U.S.
I knew scheduling holidays between local family and out of state family would be tough. I did not know the toughest part would be coordinating holidays with my husband's family! Once you start adding more families through marriage, and those families are local too, it gets pretty hectic! Knowing who will be available for Thanksgiving dinner between 4 and 6 pm, or who wants to have a Christmas lunch, and making sure everyone is satisfied with their schedule is more work than most need for the holidays!
Until my...
The day we shut down Chick-fil-A. It’s a day that is permanently singed into my brain. Okay, it was only the play place, but that might as well be all of Chick-fil-A, amiright?
The Fateful Day
So this fateful day we had traveled to Mom Mecca and I even scored the rare front row seats! (For you newbs, that’s a booth right next to the glass, so those eagle eyes of mine can remind my child that I’m *always watching*!) I’m not a big fan of sending my kids into a play place unattended (personal choice, stand down all you keyboard vigilantes). However, today we were waiting for Dad, Nan, & Pops for a special dinner, and kid 1 & kid...
Raising twins is stressful.
It’s double the diapers, twice the tantrums, and double the mess. Along with the stresses of raising twins though is something that’s commonly overshadowed: the stress of raising a sibling of twins.
Twins get a lot of attention from birth to adulthood. I’ve witnessed it all my life. Not only am I a mother of twins, but I am older sister to identical twin brothers and also married to a twin.
Things have come in twos all my life, which is the reason I have always been sensitive to how my oldest daughter would be impacted by being the sister of twins.
When we found out we were having twins, one concern (of many) was how my oldest daughter...
When my husband and I started dating it was so exciting how different yet similar we were. He recharges by reading books, exploring, and drinking coffee, and I recharge by going out with him, with friends, or with family for a fun dinner or another get together. But our similarities come from our core values. The same things are important to us, and we have the same belief systems. While we have similar points of view on almost all our beliefs, our personalities balance each other out. He is an introvert, I'm and extrovert, and we have learned how to help each other have what we need to both recharge in our own ways.
What was remarkable was when we...
I've breastfed three kids in my life so far. And with each kid, I learn a little more. As friends join me in this motherhood club, I'm occasionally asked for nursing advice. Most of the time I can keep it on topic, but sometimes I go off on a tangent of things I wish I would have known the first time. So here's a short list of my unsolicited breastfeeding advice ...
Blue Powerade
I’m not really sure there’s any science here, but this little bit of advice pops up on every breast feeding mommy group around! Maybe it’s just that blue Powerade is the best flavor out there. Or maybe because it’s easier to guzzle than water can be at...
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