***Thank you to zulily for sponsoring this post so I could fill you in on the #zulilycutie search! All opinions are 100% my own!*** Friends, it’s no secret that I LOVE zulily–one of my favorite online bargain scoring finds! This site not only offers items that fit so very well with our lives as busy […]
15 Fabulous Back to School Finds on Amazon
***This post about fabulous back to school finds not sponsored, but I do earn a small affiliate fee when you shop through the Amazon links–thanks for helping to support my blogging gig, friends!*** It’s no secret, friends. I love my online shopping and I love my deals and steals. So it makes sense that Amazon […]
9 Super-Smart Back to School Shopping Tips
***Thank you to Boscov’s for sponsoring this post so I could fill you in on these super-smart back to school shopping tips. All opinions in this post are my own*** Last year’s back to school shopping adventure wasn’t uber successful. As in I left the store and vowed to pull my children out of school […]
The Back to School Prayer
I’ve done it all, friends. I have fretted, I have fussed, I have planned, replanned, regrouped, panicked, doubly panicked, taken lessons in zen-ing it out and even considered a vigorously punishing juice diet to set myself straight…but here I am. On the eve of back to school sans a clue to the veritable best course of […]
You Can’t Win Them All, Mama
Listen up, mamas. You need to hear this one. As seasons in this raising kids gig go, the end of school is, shall we say, INTENSE. I prefer the term BRUTAL, but I am working hard on pretending a positive spin versus diving full-on into drowning status. I have thought long and hard about the […]
Teacher Appreciation zulily-Style
***Thank you to zulily for sponsoring this post so I could fill you in on the cool Thank a Teacher Contest they are running in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week!*** Happy Teacher Appreciation Week, friends! This is a week all us parents need to celebrate–the perfect way to say thank you to the individuals who love […]
Thoughtful Gifts for Encore Teachers
This is my son’s last year in elementary school. He has spent the last 6 years in a wonderful school with some pretty amazing teachers. Although my son and I send in a gift to his main teacher at the end of the year, we haven’t sent in any gifts for his encore teachers! I now realize I […]
6 PSSA Management Tips that Really Work
If you haven’t heard it yet, any day now your child will likely come home mumbling something about the upcoming PSSAs, or whichever standardized testing system your state utilizes. Some are excited (Cool! We get new pencils and the teacher said we can chew gum during the tests!), some are annoyed (Ugh! I hate tests! Why do […]
10 Sensory Fidgets for School-Age Children
As we travel further along this road of sensory issues with my son (and now, to a lesser degree, with my daughter), we have learned a few things. Scratch that, we’ve sorted A LOT to managing these issues easier. I’ve shared many of them before: routine is our best friend, go light on Trick or Treating, learn […]
When Sensory Issues Hurt
The last week was a rough one. More accurately stated, it was a fantastically nasty beast of days that left me stamping down a persistant well of tears and longingly eyeing the wine bottle (darn the new diet!). While on Day 19,000 of some hellacious flu/cold/sinus infection/Satan’s scourge-on-the-world mash-up, some kids made fun of my son. Amidst the coughing […]
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