Since having a baby, my husband and I have fallen into that trap of spending less and less time alone together. It’s awfully easy when you’ve got a kiddo that you both want to spend time with, and when you’re both tired at the end of the day. It doesn’t make things any easier that...
7 Ways to Fight Off a Cold
Well, I missed my regular Monday post over here because on Sunday night my little one woke up with a fever and a very stuffy nose. We spent most of the day yesterday on the sofa, trying to rest (in between me jumping up to cook chicken stock!) and trying to build up our...
You Might Have an OPP* If…
*OPP = Other People Problem You can exactly mimic the face other moms make when you tell them you make your own baby food. You’ve ever wanted to stab someone in the hand with a fork because they ask you if you’re “on a diet” when you order anything with vegetables. The other moms...
6 Lies Mommies Tell
It’s one of the most important lessons we all try to teach our children: don’t lie. Yet, as mommies (and probably daddies too, though I don’t have any firsthand experience!) we are guilty of lying all the time. Oh, maybe you make a point not to lie to your spouse or your kids. Maybe...
4 Ideas to Make Family Dinners Special
Family dinner was a big deal in my family when I was growing up. No matter how busy we all were, no matter what else was going on in our lives, whoever was home sat down and ate together for dinner. Even when my mother was on the road as a sales rep, my...
4 Tips for Creating Balance as a Work-From-Home Mom
A former coworker sent me a message on Facebook recently, saying that she’d heard from a mutual friend that I “had it all together” when it came to finding a work/life balance as a work-from-home mom, and she wanted to chat about how I do it. I nearly spit my coffee out all over...
Tips on Small-Space Organic Gardening from Personal Family Farmers
I waited until Mother’s Day to plant my garden, but every weekend since then, it’s been rainy here! Here’s hoping this weekend I can get some tomatoes and peppers in the ground. In the meantime, I talked with the owners of Personal Family Farmers, a cool, family-owned Colorado company that builds raised-bed gardens for...
Uh-Oh! Shopping at Home at the End of the Month
May has five weeks this year. Some of you who are more on the ball than I am may have noticed that a while ago, but I only noticed it when I was wondering why my grocery money was so scarce for this week. Turns out, I needed to make the same amount of...