(Warning: Personal info and babbling ahead!)I am sitting here thinking that I should be packing since we leave at 4 am for our road trip to Minneapolis. Instead I wanted to write post about my thoughts. Thoughts about entering into a new decade. Or simply thoughts on becoming 30. Yes, I am 30 today! When …
By Kate Hayes To begin this week’s post, I would just like to send out a big thank you to all the wonderful readers who commented on my last post, “Does Wanting to Work Make me a Selfish Mom?” Wow. I could feel the understanding and compassion (and the hugs) coming from every comment. And …
by Carly I have never been a neat freak at my house. Oh how I would love for just one day to be so freakishly neat that not one thing was out of place, everything polished and squeaky clean. I personally have such a hard time focusing on one task that is is hard to …
By Kate Hayes After giving up a job that I loved when my husband’s career moved us from St. Louis to Boston this past May, I’m ready to get serious about looking for a new job. I feel like I did the right thing by taking the entire summer off with my kids to play …
By Carly There is nothing in the whole world like peace and quiet. Everything is better. Food Tastes better, the outside is more enjoyable. Life is just better when there is no screaming, whining, and fighting going on in the background of our life. Obviously noise is a given with children and many of their …