Summer camp season is here and for many parents, this means eight weeks of trying to track down lost belongings.  How many of us begin the summer months with one water bottle, towel, and tote bag only to find that by the end of the season we’re lucky to have even one of the original…

This afternoon I wrote an important, honest, reflective post that I believed would spark a critical, though uncomfortable parenting conversation.   The initial comments opened up an equally honest and powerful discussion about the roles we can and cannot play in our children’s lives, the power we do and do not have over the outcomes of…

Last week I was minding my own business when a tweet appeared congratulating me on making a list.  Now, I have to preface this by saying that in general I don’t put a lot of stock in these lists of influencers that appear every few days. I’m almost never on the radar of these list…

**Congratulations to Resourceful Mommy reader, Sara from Texas, who was one of the winners from an earlier month!  Way to go! ** Do you remember waiting for your child’s first tooth?  My second child nursed exclusively for six months, so I was in no hurry for him to start teething.  My daughter, however, seemed as…

Thank you to Linda at Linneyville for helping me with my Royal Wedding outfit.  I think I look absolutely smashing. Wordless Wednesday Linky

The other day someone asked on Facebook when kids are old enough to put their laundry away.  Confession: I’m thirty-three and don’t put my laundry away.  I’m great at sorting it, washing it, heck, even folding it, but then it stays in a lovely row of baskets.  Freud would say it is my mother’s fault….

This week’s deal of the week is in Phoenix.  The theme of this series seems to be beauty with the last three weeks focusing on getting ready to look our best for the summer.  This week in Phoenix you can receive a Blow-Out, Deep Condition, Scalp Massage and Style at Primp and Blow for only $23….

There are certain milestones in a child’s life that require a little extra clean-up, and I’d say that first birthdays are on the top of that list.  My daughter wasn’t sure that she liked the cake or even the icing, but she sure tried hard to like it, smushing it all over her hand and…

This week’s deal of the week (week three of four!) is back in Dallas.  Warm weather is finally here, and it’s time to get ready for hitting the beach, the pool, or even just the slip and slide in the backyard.  The deal of the week for Dallas is a Brazilian wax ($40 value) for $20….

Right now I am on day two of antibiotics and starting to feel some relief from strep, otherwise known as the most-horrible-plague-like-illness-I-have-experienced-outside-of-pregnancy.  From now on when people say, “My child has strep,” I will shout out in horror and weep for them.  This strep business is no joke. As soon as I knew that was…

This is where I grew up, in the orange dot in the middle of the black circle.  We lived on a double lot with nothing but grass and a couple white birch trees, and behind us were fields of horses and sheep.  Space to run and play?  My town cornered the market on space. Then…

My first grade daughter has this friend, H, that she just absolutely adores.  They sit together at lunch, play together at recess, and get along like two silly, happy peas in a pod.  Last month while my family traveled to Walt Disney World for the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration, H had her birthday party,…

Each day I receive a couple dozen post ideas from various agencies and companies.  They often make me roll my eyes (“Are you satisfied in bed?”), make me scratch my head (“Dear Mommy Blogger Insert Name Here”), but sometimes make me stop in my tracks and realize that I absolutely cannot simply click delete and…

…for Spongebob, Harry Potter, the Twilight series… I have told my kids that they will never be allowed to watch Spongebob because there is no “right age” for rude and disgusting, but what about Harry Potter and other works of children’s literature that have become a right of passage for kids?  Just because a child…

With my first child, milestones were like the elephant in the room.  My daughter was born two months early, and while most babies her age were sitting unsupported, pulling up on furniture, and beginning to crawl, Emma was still struggling for muscle control and strength.  With each milestone, the pediatrician gave us both the “normal”…

Last fall I wrote a pair of posts about the search for who I used to be before I came a mom.  I am amazed at how rarely I know the education or professional background of my mom and blogging friends, yet I know their children’s favorite sports and food allergies.  Previously I looked at…

Mondays tear me up.  More accurately, they tear me down. I always knew I would be a stay-at-home mom, and immediately after giving birth to my first child, I decided that I never wanted to return to teaching.  Our original family plan was to head back to the classroom when our first child entered kindergarten,…

I am not a morning person.  Waking me up when I do not want to be awake is a bit like approaching a tiger as it is feasting on its prey.  Let’s just say that I’ve perfected hitting the offender without actually opening my eyes or rolling over. This morning about 6:30 my husband carefully…

Over the weekend a good friend of mine sent me a message that she had finally confronted her sister-in-law about an on-going family issue.  My brother and sister-in-law were visiting us with their kids for the weekend, so it was an interesting time to hear about such a confrontation.  I am very fortunate in that…

When my daughter was just a couple months old, my husband and I took her to see a geneticist at one of the top children’s hospitals in the country.  She had been born two months early with heart defects and other abnormalities, and while weeks of blood tests ruled out the basics, her doctors recommended…