Somewhere along the way, my house turned into a Pokémon card trading headquarters. It started innocently enough. My 8-year-old got into Pokémon cards - like a lot of kids do - and I thought, "Oh that's cute, a little hobby." Fast forward to now, and I'm living with two collectors. Because of cou...

Last night... something happened in my house. And I'm still not fully convinced it was real. My eight-year-old and five-year-old played together. Nicely. No fighting. No arguing. No "Mooooom he's touching me." For three hours. Three. Hours. I don't even know who those children were. They got home from school ...

There was a time in my life when cross stitching was basically my entire personality. Every free moment? Stitching. Sitting on the couch? Stitching. Watching TV? Definitely stitching... and occasionally looking up to see who just dramatically walked out of the room on whatever show I had on. And then... life happened. ...

Last weekend we decided to do something a little different as a family and made the trip to the Globe Theatre to see the Broadway-style stage production of Frozen. I went in excited... but also a little curious about what it would actually be like. When a movie you know so well gets turned into a live stage show, you n...

I grew up in a house full of girls. My dad was sorely out-numbered (lucky him) with 4 daughters. Going into motherhood, I didn't really think being a boy mom would be that different from a girl mom. Now granted not all boys are the same and not all girls are the same. But man, my boys, are BOYS and anyone raising b...