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Explore Spring, Experience Language, Expand Minds
Ask what they think and help them come up with ideas. It’s a great time to explore that curiosity and encourage their questions and their ideas.


Teacher Gifts: What Teachers Really Want At The End Of The School Year
A quick Pinterest search will show you how to spend hours of your time making personalized teacher gift tags to attach to buckets of candy or recreate your child’s classroom photo using stick figures and colorful buttons. But to find out what teachers really want, I went straight to the source:


Ridiculous Things We Say to Mothers
Whether you have two or seven, anything more than one child makes all the sound parenting advice from well-meaning grocery store ladies seem downright comical.


A Mom’s Guide to Understanding Substance Use in the Family
This post is sponsored by the experts at Prevea Health You know that feeling as a mom, when something feels off? When your gut tells you something isn’t quite right, even if you can’t put your finger on it? Mom’s often notice things first. It’s that “mom radar.” Whether it’s a teenager who seems more withdrawn lately, a partner who’s been leaning on alcohol more than usual or maybe even your own relationship with substances, this is a space I talk about with people on a regul


My Mother's Day
Let's face it, normal life doesn’t stop just because it is Mother’s Day. Some everyday tasks still need finishing. Sometimes my expectations of the day do not allow me to notice the small, wonderful things that my children do for me. And either I can focus on how bad I feel because I didn’t get what I expected, or I can see what is there.


Spring Cleaning Tips: It's Just Stuff
To list our house as a vacation rental, we had to empty closets and cabinets of 16+ years of clothes, toys, games, and other accumulated possessions. I assumed that getting rid of our personal things would be emotionally difficult for this sappy mom, but decluttering actually got easier as we went along.


Mother's Day DIY: Painted Succulent Planters
I have this thing for succulents right now, but I don’t have any in my home. So that is where it all started! I also wanted a cement planter, and I had found ways to make them, but they weren’t super easy and seemed to have lots of room for error, which, with my luck, is never a good idea!


When Mother’s Day Isn’t Happy
Infertility can put you in a dark place, and it can rear its ugly head when you least expect it. Mother’s Day should have been the perfect time to celebrate my own loving mother and wonderful mother-in-law, but living far away from family then had me feeling selfish.

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