"It's only temporary". When our fourth child was born, I repeated this phrase/mantra to myself quite often. I'm a sleep person, if I get sleep I can usually conquer the world the next day, without sleep I don't function well at all. After years of trial and error I found that … [Read more...]
Surviving Eating Out With Kids
I feel like we conquered the world tonight. We were able to take all four kids out to eat and there were no major meltdowns. Dining out with kids is the Olympics of parenting. Not only are you going out to a public place where your kids need to behave, but there is the element … [Read more...]
Why Kids Cry For Absolutely No Reason
I came across this website the other day and got a really good laugh out of it. It's a collection of photos of kids crying with the parent captioning why exactly their child is crying. If you're a parent you can definitely relate to these moments, if you don't have kids it … [Read more...]
Turkey Stuffed Peppers
Finding meals that everyone in the family loves is pretty difficult, so any meal that can be modified for specific family members makes my life a whole lot easier. These Turkey Stuffed Peppers you can set aside just rice, or rice with sauce, or just the "filling" if … [Read more...]
Easy Homemade Cranberry Sauce
I was never the biggest fan of cranberry sauce, but making it from scratch it is absolutely delicious and our 2 middle children LOVE it. We have it for Thanksgiving spread it over turkey, but a week or so later the kids beg for more so we end up making a couple extra … [Read more...]