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May All the Hands Be Raised

February 23, 2014 By Meredith 2 Comments

Source Yes! I can hear you! Not hearing well is hard.  As an adult, I can mostly work around it; I fantasize about a groovy new set of hearing aids I hope to someday claim and annoy my husband by endlessly asking him to repeat himself in the meantime.  But as a kid?  It just […]

Filed Under: Blog Stuff, Preschool, Young Kids

Productive Parenting and Strider Bikes? Yes please!

February 22, 2014 By Meredith 6 Comments

I’m excited to be teaming up with Productive Parenting and Strider Bikes to bring you an awesome (free!) app that you’re going love – and a chance to win one of five Strider Bikes! Thousands of Activities for Kids! Productive Parenting has been around for years – offering fast and simple activities that you can […]

Filed Under: Giveaway, Smartphones, Toddler Playtime, Toys, Young Kids

Finding Yourself, Frugie-Style

February 21, 2014 By Meredith 15 Comments

On Wednesday, I shared with you why appreciating beautiful things is important to me (aka how I justify buying the “good” mascara to my husband).  The HUGE PART I left out is my gratitude to Rebecca of Frugalista Blog for being part of this process. You see, Frugie has become a mentor to me.  Moreover, she […]

Filed Under: Girlhood, Mommy Time, Mommy's Favorites

Beautiful Things

February 19, 2014 By Meredith 32 Comments

Several months ago, something weird happened. Very weird. I started to care about myself. It wasn’t a sudden, overwhelming recognition that Meredith, outside of sippy cup provider and snotty nose wiper, existed, but it was more a dull thud of a reminder that some part of her was still hanging around somewhere.  The thud grew […]

Filed Under: Grief, Mom Dying, Mommy Time, Young Kids

Game Plan for The Games

February 17, 2014 By Meredith 12 Comments

One of my happiest memories of our early marriage is holing up in the bedroom of our first apartment watching the Olympics.  We channeled in The Games by carefully positioning the rabbit ears “just so”.  As long as we didn’t move or breathe too emphatically, NBC came streaming in with only a teensy bit of […]

Filed Under: Favorite TV Shows, Mommy Time, Mommy's Favorites, Quiet Time, Sleeping Children, Young Kids

The Two Cards

February 14, 2014 By Meredith 20 Comments

We don't have a lot of fancy things around here, but we so have a pair of really sweet matching cards that carry all the love in our marriage. Head over and take a minute to celebrate how the simple things can make a relationship...and get inspired to celebrate your own Valentine's Day!

We’re simple people around here.  Before kids, Valentine’s wasn’t that huge of a deal.  Now? Like any parent knows, step aside major holidays, because there is an exorbitant display of  glitter-glued heart-shaped cards that need to squeeze their way onto the fridge before it gets ugly. Put down the red construction paper before Mommy gets cranky. […]

Filed Under: Couple Time, Holidays

Mrs. Stapleton

February 12, 2014 By Meredith 40 Comments

Every once in a while you get to meet a soul who breaks your heart with sincerity and kindness.  Paige Stapleton, more familiarly known around my corner of the world as Mrs. Stapleton, was one such person.  Mrs. Stapleton was my son’s first preschool teacher.  When my family set off last year to enter the […]

Filed Under: Grief, Preschool

Art on the Cheap

February 10, 2014 By Meredith 46 Comments

God love Alisa for coming to us in the midst of this horrid chilly winter mess, and giving us something else to think about.  Why do I love this post so much (despite the fact that Alisa outs herself as a crafter)?  It’s in no way sponsored–it’s just a really neat way she figured out […]

Filed Under: Crafts, Tips with Alisa

The Funny Before the Flip Side

February 7, 2014 By Meredith 16 Comments

Lest you live in one of those more modern parts of the country where you have fancy things like power and heat, around these parts, as I write this, we are without such amenities.  I whined about the weather on Wednesday, yet things have since taken more of an Apocalypse-now turn.  Let’s just say it’s […]

Filed Under: Leaving the House, Messy House, SAHM Life, Sickness

When the Zippers Crap Out

February 5, 2014 By Meredith 26 Comments

Winter is adorable. Totally, utterly adorable in all its snow-covered death trap roads and sub-zero temps.  Listen, I would be all over taking my kids out to frolic in the snow if my fingers didn’t instantaneously go numb whenever I opened the door.  Raynaud’s Syndrome in these chilly months?  A total peach.  Not that I […]

Filed Under: Children's Clothes, Leaving the House

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