by Stephanie | Mar 22, 2018 | family life, motherhood, parenting
A few weeks ago my six-year-old daughter had her tonsils out. I was terrified. I spent the days (and weeks) prior to her surgery envisioning worst case scenarios and then trying to replace them with harmonious visions of everything going smoothly. And things did go...
by Stephanie | Dec 21, 2017 | family life, funny, motherhood, parenting
I mean, maybe. Maybe I won’t have a meltdown this year. I hope not. I want to make a solemn vow not to, but . . . let’s be realistic. Tonight I posted this update on my Mommy, for Real Facebook page If you are angry that your invisible work goes unnoticed,...
by Stephanie | Nov 9, 2017 | family life, motherhood
I stood at my kitchen island, wiping spilled food off my to-do list, staring at my weekly meal plan, and feeling the biggest case of déjà vu ever. Hadn’t I just been standing here, frantically stirring something on the stove and scanning my list to identify the...
by Stephanie | Oct 12, 2017 | family life
Almost three months ago my husband and I decided to go gluten free. Just for a few weeks, at first, to see what would happen. We both have a lot of joint pain and stiffness, and we knew gluten often causes inflammation, so we wanted to see how removing it from our...
by Stephanie | Oct 3, 2017 | family life, parenting
“I know Daddy is my Tooth Fairy,” she told me. *** I remember finding out, sitting in the bathroom of our Midwest ranch home, crying brokenheartedly. My mom answered my questions honestly, and like most kids, I found out about all three in one sitting:...
by Stephanie | Sep 6, 2017 | family life, parenting
I absolutely love Disneyland. So do my kids. So does my husband (seriously). We love it so much that we have gone on a 5-day vacation to Disneyland the last week of August for three years in a row. It’s become our thing, because Disney is our family’s...
