Like I said we are meeting here every Monday to discuss the book A Mother’s Book of Secrets by Linda Eyre & Shawni Eyre Pothier. Because I was in real need of a “Mothering Pick Me Up” and this is already helping me out quite a bit. You really don’t have to be reading the book along […]
Preface: You should do baby food the way you and your pediatrician feel is right. These are just my opinions and what has worked for me. Every single mama, family and BABY are so different! For about two weeks, Baby Shae has been acting like she needs something more than Mama’s milk! Silly me, I […]
I went up north to Logan to see my sister for probably the last time before she pops out baby Mason. She was cracking me up with her “interview” questions like…”Vanessa, tell me the thing you were most scared of and most looking forward to with your first baby” and so on. Ok, but you […]
Elisa is the wonderful, beautiful, amazing, feel too lucky she even knows my name woman behind MormonMommyBlogs.com, Casual Bloggers Conference and her personal blog Crazyland, Tales From Motherhood. She wrote a very helpful, informative and well written guest post on teaching our children tolerance. Just click on the button below to check it out:
In this post I will profess my love for Julie B. Beck. Get ready. Julie B. Beck is the President of the Relief Society. The Relief Society is a philanthropic and educational women’s organization and an official auxiliary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was founded in 1842 and is one […]
This week I am cheating and using someone else’s pictures. My friend Brittany puts together these Visiting Teaching Message Images for others to print off and use. My mind has been very worried this week…worried and then invigorated…then scared to death…with feelings of hope in between all that…and even excitement! Raising children, especially daughters, in […]
I officially have the winter blues. Do you? Remember this post and contest I did back in October to help us? I am re-posting it in attempts to help us fight back the winter blues. What activities do you do with your kids when you are stuck in the house during cold weather? (You know, […]
You know when you get to swapping baby stories, birthing stories and nursing stories how you can sit with other moms and talk about it forever? Even if you don’t know them terribly well, you find the hardest, most embarrassing and greatest moments just come spilling out. I have to be honest. Lots of the time I really […]
Do you have silly things you do to keep the kiddos busy? These are the two things I do with my camera to keep them happy for a good 20 minutes. Oh the things I have up my sleeve. Well, this is I Never Grew Up after all! #1 Turning Your Kids into Ghosts Put […]
aRR aRR! Do you have some pirates that get a little grouchy before lunchtime/naptime? Distract them. Allow them to growl and stomp around with a purpose! Start this journey one hour before lunchtime (and then of course naptime or quiet time): For 15 minutes draw a map of your main floor detailing the “path” they must […]
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