3 Easy Valentine’s Crafts to Do With Kids (And A Few Books To Read When You Give Up…)

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner! While finding the time to make and deliver Pinterest-perfect class valentines was never at the top of my list as a working mom, now that I’m home, I have found that I actually really enjoy having a little bit of extra time and…

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5 Things I’ve Learned From My Time in Quarantine:

And How It’s Changed Me For The Better. I initially saw “And The People Stayed Home” by Kitty O’Meara all over #bookstagram several months ago. But, to be honest, I didn’t really want to read a picture book about the nightmare that I already had to live through every day,…

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10 Things I’ve Learned in 8 Months of Blogging on Instagram

Authenticity matters. To me, and to most people on the internet. Whenever I feel like I’ve posted something that isn’t quite true to myself, I feel pretty weirdsies about it, and I think other people feel that way as well. My favorite thing about Instagram (and one of the things…

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Preparing for Baby #3! (And what I did differently the first and second times around)

When I first told my friend (and 3-child parent) that I was expecting another baby, she asked me if I had “forgotten” that I was pregnant yet. I laughed, because I was in the first trimester, and was so miserable that it was pretty much impossible to forget. But now,…

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Ray Bradbury, Quality of Information & The Tragedy of The Capitol Coup

After the events of yesterday, I found myself scrolling through Instagram, and feeling really hollow. A lot of people were saying stuff, and a lot of it was good stuff, but very little of it had, as the great Ray Bradbury would say, “pores.” And not because the people writing…

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