Rachel DeAngelis
I am a Florida girl who has lived all over the map (including overseas in China!), but for the past seven years I've been putting down roots in Knoxville, Tennessee. Besides being the mother of the cutest two little boys in the world (it's true...check Guinness), I am also a cat-whisperer, a Dollywood Insider, and a high-school English teacher. You can read about all of my latest shenanigans on my blog.
Motherhood Looks Different Than I Thought It Would
I will never forget those challenging weeks after I became a mother for the first time. My baby was colicky and seemed to never stop crying. He required constant motion or rocking. Whenever I...
Be Gentle With Those Middle School Babies
Too old to run wild on the playground anymore. Too young to drive a car. Barely out of elementary school, yet charged with hormones and all sorts of grown-up feelings. They are stuck in...
A Little Bit Of Summer Time Travel
I love a good time travel story. Whether it's a romantic story like The Time Traveler's Wife, a mind-boggling movie like The Butterfly Effect, or a series that is super sci-fi like Dr. Who,...
Riding The Big Bear Mountain Roller Coaster At Dollywood
Dollywood has announced some big news recently! The park just launched its newest roller coaster last week, and it's the longest track (at nearly 4,000 feet) of any coaster in the park! Being hailed...
Visit Baxter Gardens Before It’s Too Late!
Something about spring time has me fully embracing the romance of classic literature. I long to walk through the English countryside like a character from a Jane Austen novel, my long skirt gathered in...
To Retain Or Not To Retain?
Around this time last year, I was having serious doubts about whether my youngest, enrolled in kindergarten at the time, was ready to move on to first grade. To be honest, I'd been having...
Single Mom ISO Boyfriend
Here I sit on a Saturday night, staring at a blinking cursor on the screen, trying to figure out how to sum up who I am as a person in 150 words or less...