This is my day-dreamer, song-singer, snuggler and animal lover, my grinner, my story-teller. This is my girl who needs to be pulled back from the Hundred Acre Wood with several calls to attention, and sometimes even a physical tug on her arm. I love that she’s not confined to the “real world.” But sometimes she can be really hard to…
“Mom, I love you so much,” my five year old told me last night as we were finishing up her bedtime routine. “More than my Shopkins and my figurines!” “Well, I’m glad for that,” I said as we hugged. “I love you, too!” “Yeah…they just stand there. And some of them don’t even stand up. Like Pocahontas. She always falls…
When it comes to anger and losing our temper with our kids, we have two factors working against us: winter and sleep deprivation. We can’t do anything about the winter. As I write this, the snow is falling. Again. Winter just shortens everyone’s fuse. And, 99% of the time, we really can’t do anything about the sleep deprivation, either. I…
Did you have a perfect Christmas? As moms, we work hard to make the holidays “perfect.” Into our already crazy busy routines, we squeeze in hours of shopping for the right gifts, menu planning, cooking, baking, cleaning, wrapping… Exhausting, isn’t it? And for the Schairer family, taking and then mailing out the perfect Christmas family photo. It was beautiful…