3 Astounding Confessions from a Mom’s Return to “Normal Life”
Parenting through a pandemic is interesting to say the least. I never intended to home school my children and yet we spent the entire last school year in a virtual school bubble. We spent 18 months or so keeping our…
How to Use My Astoundingly Simple Method to Care for Sick Kids
As we move ourselves out of pandemic isolation and back into all our real-world spaces, the inevitable happened – we have three sick kids! I knew this was going to happen. I fear the little man will be sick for…
How an Empathy Upgrade is a Valuable Parenting Skill
I am a mom of three amazing children. They are creative, intelligent, loving, and fun. They are also sensitive, loud, obnoxious, and demanding. As a parent, I walk a tight rope as I manage rules, emotions, and the ins and…
How to Ditch the Dress Code and Empower Body Positivity
My 2021 goal is to read more. I enjoy reading and need to make the effort to do things I enjoy. Looking for lighthearted entertainment, I picked up a middle grade novel recommended by my cousin. Dress Coded by Carrie…
Be Present – It is the Greatest Gift this Holiday Season
As the 2020 holiday season begins, I thought it seemed the perfect time to revisit a post written for the Unsanity Blog in 2019. Enjoy! The holiday season is full of glitz, glamor, and excitement. Around every corner are…
Tales from the Adventure of Virtual Kindergarten
Never did I ever want to home school my children. Never did I ever want my children to attend virtual school at home. Yet 2020 with it’s global pandemic, catapults us into a virtual school journey, like it or not.…
My Prayer for the New School Year
The 20-21 School Year approaches and tension runs high. We are faced with loads of questions and very few answers. Parents, students, teachers, administrators all face new uncharted waters. We are going to need grace, empathy, and resilience to help…
How to Provide Freedom and Still Enforce Limits
We have a teenager in our house. The expression “It’s MY room” comes out often in daily conversation. To which I often reply, “It is MY house!” That being said, I want her to have a space that is hers,…
Why I HATE Bedtime and How I Fixed It
After thirteen years of motherhood, I can say with certainty – I HATE bedtime! I can see your faces, you are questioning my sanity, maybe thinking – Does she not like quiet? Bedtime is the most challenging time of the…
What is the Right Decision for our Children?
By my last count, it has been 136 days since my children entered a school building. We muddled our way through our first round of pandemic online schooling. Now we are facing the 20-21 school year wondering how it will…
