Toddlers

**Note:  Press play to hear the audio while reading this post.  It will make sense by the end, promise.  Drake. "Hotline Bling." By Aubrey Graham, Paul Jeffries, and Timmy Thomas. Hotline Bling. Cash Money, 2015. Eighty-five degrees or forty-five degrees, popsicle...

A Dear John letter to my child’s unworn Halloween costume. Dear Dory, I know it’s been almost a year since we last spoke, so I’d like to begin by apologizing, once again, for how things ended between us. It was never...

Hey there, fellow mamas! So, you know the drill -- toddlers are on a never-ending quest for toys that are as fun as they are safe. As we step into 2024, let me spill the beans on the coolest,...

Bedtime with toddlers can sometimes feel like navigating a messy but well-loved minefield of toys blindfolded. Just when you think you've got the routine down, they throw you a curveball! But fear not, weary parents, for we've crafted the ultimate...

Y’all. Three-year-olds are hard! My son turned three in April, and I’d say about a month before that we started having some really hard days. It felt like they were becoming more and more frequent. That is when I...

I’m the type of person who looks for lessons everywhere. It’s both deeply annoying and profoundly helpful in navigating emotional maturity. I consider this habit my “with great power comes great responsibility” conundrum. It’s annoying because adulting is mostly...

Our son was recently diagnosed with autism and echolalia. And although my husband and I had a hunch of what his diagnosis would be, it didn’t make it any easier to hear. He was about two years old when we...

Oh, Mommas! If you haven't seen it yet, I am so excited to be able to give this little sneak peek into the royal mom life. Queen Elizabeth was being celebrated at the Queen's Platinum Jubilee to honor her service...

My son has always been extremely interested in what I am doing in the kitchen. At around four months old, I would put him in his Upseat while I prepped, cooked, and ate dinner. By six months, he was...

When we potty trained our daughter at 2 1/2, I felt like Super Mom. My husband and I made mimosas, hunkered down for a weekend, and she was fully potty trained by Sunday. Like… zero accidents... the poster child...