Nine years ago I had a newborn in the NICU. It was my third pregnancy, so I thought I was prepared for anything when I showed up at the hospital to deliver. But shortly after the doctor shouted, “It’s a girl!” he added, in a more subdued tone, “Her breathing sounds a little wet, so [...]

My younger daughter had a sleepover birthday party last Saturday. Five little girls slept on our third floor where our play room is, since we don’t have a basement. That meant five little girls jumping over top of my head until the wee hours of the morning. Did I mention the floorboards of our old [...]

This blog was written by my co-editor Cheryl Clemens: If you are a mosquito magnet like I am, you know how miserable the outdoors can be during the summer. Everyone else is having fun while you sit slapping mosquitos every five seconds and scratching like crazy. Bug repellent works, but if I miss one square [...]

I have the propensity to obsess over things — especially if they have to do with my children. It’s a habit that drives me crazy. My husband says that it’s my “mommy brain” and that it’s hard to turn that off. If something has happened that might hurt one of my children or if one [...]

As I write this there are 10 tweens in my house. My daughter, the introvert I wrote about earlier this summer, has come out of her shell and become quite the social butterfly. She has more friends at the pool than I can count on both hands and is often heading home to one of [...]