by Stephanie | Mar 31, 2015 | family life, parenting
I wrote this post two years ago, but I still struggle frequently with my tendency to overreact and blow up when parenting gets stressful. It was recently brought to my attention that I am the type of person categorized as a “hot responder” (Ahem. Everyone...
by Stephanie | Dec 1, 2014 | family life, funny, motherhood
It has begun. The week of Thanksgiving, my third grader presented her three-year-old sister with a hand-wrapped gift, the contents of which were completely unknown to me. And I knew that for the next month, various members of the family would be intermittently...
by Stephanie | Jun 17, 2014 | family life, funny, motherhood
This week is my two-year anniversary as a blogger! We affectionately refer to these occasions as “blogiversaries” in the blog world. I’m going to commemorate it by sharing one of my favorite stories. I wrote this post during my second month as a...
by Stephanie | Apr 24, 2014 | family life, motherhood
*Last month I had the epic realization that I need to take a few most of the things off my to-do list, and one of the ways I’m saving time and sanity is by re-sharing some of my favorite older posts. So today I’m reposting something I wrote at the...
by Stephanie | Nov 7, 2013 | parenting
When I was a kid, I thought that if I repeated the same made-up prayer every night, warding off every possible misfortune, that I might be able to prevent bad things from happening to me. Please God, don’t let anyone in my family get sick and die, or get...
