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24 Fun Mother Daughter Trips You’ll Want to Take Right Now

January 15, 2018 By Lauren

These 24 fun mother daughter trip ideas will get you excited to spend quality time with the special girls in your life.

Below: Go on one of these fun mother daughter trips to spend some quality time with the special girl(s) in your life. It was November and that meant one thing. Actually it meant a lot of things: Winter was beginning, Thanksgiving was right around the corner, Christmas would follow soon after that… But for my […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Informational Tagged With: daughter, day trips, fun mother daughter trips, mother, parenting, travel, vacation

A Wedding, a Dress, and the First Fight of Marriage

April 15, 2015 By Lauren

Wedding Dress First Fight

There’s something magical about finding ‘the dress’. Maybe you’ve tried on dozens or maybe it’s the very first one you slip over your head, but as soon as it’s on, you know. Just like the moment you realize that guy is The One, you also realize that dress is The One. The one that makes […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Marriage Tagged With: argument, daughter, dress, fight, husband, marriage, wedding, wedding dress, wife

I Told My Two Year Old Her Butt was Big

March 9, 2015 By Lauren

Her Butt Was Big

“Mummy, I hafta pee!” My freshly potty trained two year old dashed into the bathroom where I was blow drying my hair, tugging at her pajama pants as she ran. I set the blow dryer on the counter, scooped her up, and rushed to the toilet, unwilling to test the urgency of her declaration for even a second longer […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays Tagged With: body image, butt, daughter, fat, girls, healthy, kids, parenting, thin

A Letter to My Teenage Daughter While You’re Still a Little Girl

September 2, 2014 By Lauren

Letter to Daughter

A Letter to My Teenage Daughter While You’re Still a Little Girl Dear Annelise, You spoke three words to me tonight that took firm hold of my heart (and no, they weren’t those three words). As I’ve pondered them, I’ve realized it’s time to write you a letter; a letter you won’t read for a […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays Tagged With: daughter, girl, letter, mother, mother daughter relationship, parenting, relationships, teenager

To Annelise, on your second birthday

May 18, 2014 By Lauren

birthday party day

You are the perfect blend of girly girl and tomboy

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays Tagged With: birthday, daughter, girl, tomboy, two

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