Motherhood + Parenting

I don't know about you, but sometimes I feel stretched to the limit in every aspect of the phrase.  My time is stretched, my money is stretched, my energy is stretched, my patience is stretched, and so on and...

Often as moms, we are surrounded by negativity. Memes that say things like, “I love being around my kids as long as they aren't sick, or tired, or hungry, or whiny” abound on the Internet. People who aren't parents talk...

I think that every stage that Caroline has gone through I have said is my favorite, but this stage really is my favorite. Caroline is almost a year and a half old. She is so cute and so independent but...

We're back in the land of the living! Over the last two weeks we contracted everything you could possibly get by licking a Walmart shopping cart handle and it wasn't pretty. We ALL had an ugly stomach bug and...

Oklahoma City Moms Blog is growing rapidly and with it, we have had the opportunity to add to our team!  We had a great response to our request for more contributors and we were beyond excited when these four...

The feeling of finally getting the house clean is unexplainable.  It is quite an accomplishment to say the least…  Only to realize that the three little people living in my house have destroyed it again in half the time...

Can I be honest with you? I'm not a fan of four. Four what? The age....of my daughter. Four is the new f word. There I said it. I'm a mother of a 4-year-old and it is stretching me to my...

I love being the random recipient of kindness.  Even if it's as small as someone opening the door for me when my arms are full of a wiggling toddler, it always adds a smile to my face.  With kids,...

Every time that my sister and I are at my parent's house, we pull out our family photo albums and thumb through the pages and relive the memories of our youth. It's funny to see old haircuts and exciting...

I've always loved organization. Although, I don't always have the cleanest house, my heart skips a beat when I get the chance to reorganize my pantry or when my medicine cabinet gets an overhaul. When I was growing up,...

As the winter months drag on, the walls in our house start closing in.  When the pent up energy has nowhere to go except bouncing off walls, it’s time to get creative.  Over the years I have come up...

I like to live by the "Golden Rule" - treat others as you would want to be treated. When it comes to young girls these days this rule is a hard one. Girls can be just mean and it...