Up until a year or so ago, we used to get together with our friends the Toomeys a couple of times a month. We became friends when our older daughters were infants and our friendship grew with our families. We had pizza dinners once a month and coffee and donuts after church almost every week. [...]

Do you ever look around and laugh about the things you still use even though your kids are getting older? Here are a few examples from my house. Maggie will be 13 in January but she’s still sleeping on Hello Kitty sheets. All four kids still eat off of plastic flower plates we got from [...]

    That’s my son Adam on the left with our neighbor, Nick. They started talking about their Halloween costume sometime in the beginning of September. But Adam pretty much threw his outfit together a few minutes before he left to go trick-or-treating (can you tell?). On the one side here, he’s dressed like his [...]

One of the hardest things about being a mom these days (or I guess at any stage) is being able to wake up and hit the ground running. My alarm goes off at 6:30 most days. It should probably be earlier — which might help with the frantic-ness of my morning — but I can’t [...]

I’ve been practicing a bit of hands off parenting lately. We are vacationing in a small beach community in Rhode Island where my dad’s family has been spending summers since 1938. It’s a bit of a throw back where kids can ride their bikes without much worry and everyone knows everyone else. So when the [...]

I stepped out of my life as a mom on Sunday and went away with my sister for a night. It was blissful. We went to several beaches on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay  to hunt for sea glass. We both love combing beaches for the sea tumbled treasure (trash?), and it seemed [...]