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7 Things I Wish I’d Known Before My Child Started Kindergarten

July 20, 2015 By Lauren

7 Things I Wish I'd Known Before My Child Started Kindergarten

This post contains affiliate links. I will earn a small commission on any purchase made at no extra cost to you. Thank you for your support! When the new school year begins in several weeks, I will send my second child off to kindergarten. For some reason I thought it would be easier the second time around, […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Informational, Parenting Essays, Things I Wish I'd Known Tagged With: child, kids, kindergarten, school, teacher, teachers, things I wish I'd known

What They Meant When They Told Me Life Will Never Be the Same

July 13, 2015 By Lauren

What They Meant When They Told Me Life Would Never Be the Same

Back in May, I had the honor of being part of the inaugural cast of Listen to Your Mother Bangor. I’ve been waiting for the videos to be posted before I shared my story with you. You can read or watch it below.  What They Meant When They Told Me Life Will Never Be the […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays, Parenting Humor Tagged With: children, kids, listen to your mother, ltym, motherhood, parenting

Four Words That Put Motherhood in Perspective

June 2, 2015 By Lauren

Four Words That Put Motherhood in Perspective

  The four words are said after five minutes that feel like five hours. The two year old, the four year old, and I are at the six year old’s school to pick him up for a field trip. I’ve told the two year old she can walk if she stays with me, but willpower […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays Tagged With: children, growing up, kids, motherhood, perspective, phases, stages

14 Surprising Life Lessons My Kids Have Taught Me

May 20, 2015 By Lauren

14 Surprising Life Lessons My Kids Have Taught Me

 Parenting is one big learning experience, but have you ever stopped to think not just of what you’ve learned about parenting, but what you’ve learned about life in general, thanks to your kids? Today I’m excited to welcome Alison Wilkinson from Run, Knit, Love who is sharing 14 surprising life lessons her kids have taught her.  14 Surprising […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Guest Posts, Parenting Essays, Parenting Humor Tagged With: children, guest post, kids, lessons, life lessons, motherhood, teaching

To Annelise, on Your Third Birthday

May 18, 2015 By Lauren

Third Birthday

  Dear Annelise, I was recently reminded of a poem that, other than the bit about curly hair, fits you to a T. “There was a little girl, Who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, She was very good indeed, But when she was bad she […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays Tagged With: birthday, letter, letter to child, third birthday, three

To Eli, on your 7th Birthday

May 12, 2015 By Lauren

To Eli, On Your 7th Birthday

  Dear Eli, Back in January we spent a bitterly cold afternoon visiting Daddy while he worked on a construction project. We slid around on the ice-covered ground for a while, then hopped into his truck and cranked the heat in order to regain feeling in our fingers and toes. As we slowly warmed up, your […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays, Uncategorized Tagged With: birthday, letter, letter to child, mom, mother, seven, seventh birthday, son

It Was Just a Set of Steps

May 7, 2015 By Lauren

It Was Just a Set of Steps

  It was just a set of steps. Three or four granite slabs set into the side of a grassy hill. The steps didn’t lead anywhere. In fact, you could skip them entirely simply by walking up the hill beside them only to be met with more hill beyond. They sat close to the edge of the […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays Tagged With: childhood, memories, mother, Mother's Day, motherhood, steps

When the Birth of My Child Meant the Death of My Dream

April 27, 2015 By Lauren

Birth of Child, Death of Dream

I was the pregnant woman all the other pregnant women love to hate. Not a stitch of morning sickness, perfect weight gain, a little basketball belly. I wondered at every flutter and kick and eagerly awaited each doctor’s appointment. Textbooks could have used me as their poster child. When the Birth of My Child Meant the Death of […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays Tagged With: baby, birth, birth story, c-section, cesarean, dream, motherhood

To Samuel, On Your Fifth Birthday

April 22, 2015 By Lauren

To Samuel on Your Fifth Birthday

Dear Samuel, This has been a year of transition for you. Last summer I was pretty nervous about how things would go when you started preschool in the fall. You’d done a lot of growing during ‘Mommy School’ and then the fun school you spent an hour at a couple of times each week, but […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays Tagged With: 5, birthday, five years old, growing up, little boy, motherhood, Samuel

13 Milestones I Wish I’d Known About

April 19, 2015 By Lauren

13 Milestones

We all know the milestones to eagerly watch for: First smile, rolling over, first steps. We wait for them to happen and carefully document them when they do (well, for the first kid at least). There are some milestones, though, that no one thinks to tell you about. They are just as momentous, in some […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Informational, Parenting Essays, Parenting Humor Tagged With: kids, milestones, motherhood, parenting, things I wish I'd known

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