It’s one of the tops struggles as a parent I think – how to motivate your kids. As a parent for 14 years and mom of 7 kids, I’ve tried my fair share of ways to motivate my kids over the years and thought I would share some of the best ideas with you today. …
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I received a Joovy baby doll set to facilitate this post. All opinions are my own. You may have caught a couple of my other posts but just in case not, our family does foster care. We’ve been licensed since August of 2016. I have to say, we did go into this with the hopes …
This is a sponsored post on behalf of P&G. All opinions are my own. So, you’re going to have a new baby in the house soon, congratulations! As a mom of 4, today I want to share with you my do’s and don’ts of creating a baby registry. Do Create a Registry Whether this is …
My husband and I started talking about foster care and adoption before we even married. Always on our radar, we finally felt that tug telling us it was time last Fall. Our first placement, a sibling group of three, was only 2 weeks. Then we had a baby for three joyous months. He was originally …
Miscarriage. It’s such an ugly word. So many women suffer silently that the world often doesn’t realize how common the unfortunate event is. More than 80% of miscarriages occur within the first three months of pregnancy. No matter the timing of the miscarriage, the effects are devastating to the family, but especially the mother. If …
We have 4 kids but have managed to avoid of the ER…until tonight. The evening was progressing like any other. We’d just finished up dinner and our youngest Gideon, who just turned a year old, was dirty after dinner, as most 12 month olds are. We are living at my inlaws’ house right now while …
Maggie is only 6 and although we’ve had discussions about how babies come out of their mommy’s belly, we have yet to have the talk about how exactly they get in there in the first place. I don’t think she’s ready for that quite yet. Maggie went to her very first sleepover a few …