

15 Budget Friendly Stay At Home Date Ideas
in FamilyIf you are looking to spend more time with your partner, but you know that a dinner at Ruth’s Chris (or even Waffle House) isn’t in your budget, here are some seriously fun date ideas that you can do at home and on a...
Play Kitchen Accessories
November 17, 2017 in FamilyUpdated 12/09/2018 Did your little one receive a toy kitchen set for Christmas? Or did you buy one and are now on the hunt for accessories, that aren’t one million little plastic pieces? As if finding a toy kitchen wasn’t hard enough, navigating the...
Why It’s Important for My Children to Have Ethnically Diverse Dolls
November 14, 2017 in FamilyAs an adult, I remember as a child seeing images of dolls and advertising images on television and thinking to myself “why do they not have anyone who looks like me?” Kids are literally advertised to 365 days a year, with a massive push...
How To Stay Calm Even When Your Kids Are Driving You Nuts
November 4, 2017 in FamilyBefore I had my first child I always said that my children would be perfect and naturally fall in line like the Von Trapp’s. They were going to be the most wonderful children ever, and when we would go to restaurants or any public...
TODDLERS, TWEENS, TANTRUMS AND TIARAS: DECODING THE IMPOSSIBLE
November 2, 2017 in FamilyHaving a two AND a three year old is hard. There is potty training, tantrums, exploring, tantrums, endless questions, tantrums and more. Having a tween is equally hard; makeup, tantrums, fashion, tantrums, cell phones, tantrums, boys, tantrums… What do these two stages have in...
How We Made Time for Unscheduled, Unregulated Fun!
November 1, 2017 in FamilyThank you Warner Bros Consumer Products for sponsoring this post. Grab the family, turn down the lights, and activate the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Inc. Theater skill on your Amazon Alexa enabled device by saying “Alexa, open Scooby-Doo” and away you go! Gather ‘Round. Get Solving....
Know Money, No Problems: How We Achieved Student Loan Success
September 19, 2017 in Family, FinanceThank you Navient for sponsoring this post. I remember our first date almost nine years ago, like it was yesterday. It was that day while riding the Ferris Wheel that my husband uttered three words that made me instantly fall in love with...
No Damsel: How one artist re-imagined classic Disney character’s for the modern era.
September 7, 2017 in Family, Motherhood, Social Justice, TravelArtist Dorian Lynde creates alternative iconography for young girls with her No Damsel exhibit at CAM Raleigh. Portraying alternative identities for women that aren’t one dimensional, regressive or reductive and are impossible to ignore is Lynde’s overall goal for the exhibit. “It’s my hope that these images...
Achieving Work-Life-Balance When Working from Home
August 25, 2017 in Family, GraceThe topic of balance is one that I have struggled with since I was in high school. When I became a college student, I worked three jobs while trying to maintain a full load of classes. While I managed I can honestly say it...