Ages + Stages

I am done having kids. There. I said it. Commence weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. I am one of five children. My husband is an only child. We agreed before we ever got married that we wanted "at least...

The first time time I heard the term "bow bootcamp" my daughter was just a year old. A friend, who also had a one year old girl, mentioned that a mutual acquaintance at church had trained her own daughters...

True life y'all: Last week at the park, a toddler threw sand in my face. No, it wasn't my toddler. Yes, the toddler's mother watched it happen. No, that mother did not flip out. She didn't discipline. And that's when...

Last winter, I read an article someone wrote about how over the top children's birthday parties have gotten and how she curbs that trend with her son. She talked about how she gave her son a limit, say $100,...

I’m currently pregnant with my second child and due in September, but it feels so much like I’m pregnant for the very first time that everything seems a surprise. I know people say every pregnancy, like every child, is...

I grew up during that amazing time when summers were spent almost exclusively outside. Even during those fluke, pop-up thunderstorms, we’d traipse down to the curb and collect water running down the street {and play some weird game I...

Before sharing my birth story (actually the stories of both of my babies’ births with you), I wanted to include a disclaimer: I had all-natural births and I thought both were awesome in their transformative intensity.  But, I know...