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Seven Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Had My Third Child: Part 1

February 3, 2015 By Lauren

Third Child

Back in September I wrote a post entitled Five Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Had My Second Child. It has easily become the most popular post on my blog, sometimes even beating out new posts for the number of views in a single day. As I thought about it’s popularity, it occurred to […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Informational, Parenting Essays, Parenting Humor Tagged With: kids, parenting, third child, three kids

Top Ten Reasons to Get Excited About School Vacation

December 18, 2014 By Lauren

School Vacation

School vacation is almost upon us. A lot of parents have mixed feelings about vacations, feeling excitement over some aspects of their kids being home and dread over others. I’m not a fan of dwelling on the negative, so here’s a list of awesome things about school vacation. Hopefully it puts you in the right […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Humor Tagged With: kids, parenting, parents, school, school vacation, top ten, vacation

Meme Monday: Family Movie Night

November 17, 2014 By Lauren

Family Movie Night Meme

Welcome to another exciting edition of Meme Monday. This week’s topic: Family Movie Night. Does your reality live up to your expectations? Meme Monday: Family Movie Night

Filed Under: Family Life, Meme Monday, Parenting Humor Tagged With: expectations, family, family movie night, family time, meme, meme monday, reality, theory

Meme Monday: Parenthood on Friday Night

November 3, 2014 By Lauren

Parenthood Meme

We’re back for another edition of Meme Monday! You seemed to enjoy the text version of this one, so I thought I’d include a nice picture to make it sharable. The Truth About Parenthood on Friday Nights

Filed Under: Family Life, Meme Monday, Parenting Humor Tagged With: friday, friday night, kids, meme, meme monday, parenthood, sleep, tired

Week 40: The Day I Ran Out of Coffee

October 27, 2014 By Lauren

Keeping It Real Challenge

First time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge? Click here to find out what it’s all about. You may notice that this week doesn’t have a movie title. It was just too much for my uncaffeinated brain. I might not go back. 5 am Alarm sounds. I have four stories burning a hole […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Keeping It Real Challenge, Parenting Humor Tagged With: caffeine, coffee, decaf, keeping it real, nap, tired, whine

Meme Monday: Wash It or Wear It?

October 20, 2014 By Lauren

Funny Flowchart

Welcome to another edition of Meme Monday! The other day I was lamenting the fact that the laundry is NEVER done. Just when I finish putting away the last of the 20 loads I did over the weekend, there’s a whole fresh crop waiting to be washed, dried, folded, and (my least favorite part) put […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Meme Monday, Parenting Humor Tagged With: busy, chores, clothes, families, flowchart, fun, funny, laundry, public, smell, stains, wash, wear

4 things that are completely different from when I was a kid

October 11, 2014 By Lauren

Things That are Different

Sometimes I look at my kids sitting in the living room, playing Minecraft on the iPad, and I think back on how much has changed since I was a child. Wouldn’t it be fun to take our kids back to those days, just so they could see, first hand, how different things were? I don’t […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Humor Tagged With: cell phones, changes, computer, danger, differences, driving, food allergies, growing up, internet, kids, phones, rotary phones, technology, television

Meme Monday: My Kid Needs to Pee

September 22, 2014 By Lauren

Kid Needs to Pee

Happy Meme Monday to you! I hope you enjoyed your weekend and didn’t have any accidents due to a slowpoke. We had a near miss which inspired today’s meme. I call it “My Kid Needs to Pee!” Enjoy!

Filed Under: Family Life, Meme Monday, Parenting Humor Tagged With: kids, meme, meme monday, monster truck, pee, slow driver

Meme Monday: 5 Things Every Mom Wants to Hear Her Husband Say

September 15, 2014 By Lauren

Husbands, Say these things to your wives!

Meme Monday Welcome to Meme Monday: 2nd Edition! Find my first meme here.

Filed Under: Family Life, Marriage, Meme Monday, Parenting Humor Tagged With: husbands, meme, meme monday, moms, sweet nothings, wives

Five things I wish I’d known before I had my second child

September 11, 2014 By Lauren

Second Child

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Any purchases you make will cost you the same as ever, but I’ll receive a small commission to keep the blog running. Thanks for your support! When you’re expecting your first child, you read a million books on the subject because you’re nervous and you have no idea what […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Informational, Parenting Essays, Parenting Humor, Things I Wish I'd Known Tagged With: differences, fighting, first child, gender, kids, love, parenting, personality, second child

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