by Shadra Bruce | Education
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce Well, that decade went quickly! We’re back in college financial planning phase again. Almost 10 years ago, Kira graduated from high school, setting us down the path of FAFSAs, scholarships, and sticker shock at the cost of...
by Kira Hazledine | Let's Talk, On Motherhood
Getting Real with Kira Hazledine I remember making friends growing up, and it was a lot easier when I was small. Hey, you like this color or that candy? BEST FRIENDS. And it just worked. I have no idea why. Maybe it’s because kids aren’t nearly as judgmental as...
by Shadra Bruce | Parenting, Teens and Tweens, Toddlers
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce By the time our youngest daughter, Anika, was 3, she was a fashion queen. She was a confident and happy little girl who liked to make a statement. She wore hats—a baseball cap to the side, or a flowery concoction, or even a winter cap...
by Shadra Bruce | Kid Safety, Parenting
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce Every time I accidentally get exposed to the news – local or national – I hear about the drug epidemic. Opioids are killing people in record numbers. Kids and adults alike are addicted to prescription pain killers, and...
by Kira Hazledine | Pregnancy and Your Newborn, Travel
Getting Real with Kira Hazledine Pregnancy is no reason to not travel! Especially with babymoons becoming popular these days. (Like a honeymoon, but a vacation before the baby is born). There are extra precautions that you want to take as a pregnant lady traveling,...
by Kira Hazledine | Breastfeeding, Pregnancy and Your Newborn
Getting Real with Kira Hazledine It was one of the first questions at my initial OB appointment. “Were you relying on breastfeeding as birth control?” Oh my goodness. Absolutely not. We would not be rolling the dice like that uninformed. Not that we...
by Shadra Bruce | Adult Children, Parenting, Raising Healthy Kids, Teens and Tweens
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce During our oldest son’s junior year in high school, he decided to look into military service as an option after graduation. Reports of young men and women dying in service were on the news regularly. However, we had always tried to teach...
by Kira Hazledine | On Motherhood, Raising Healthy Kids
Getting Real with Kira Hazledine “I’m so fat!” This is what I said as I stared in the mirror, frowning at my pregnancy bloat. Honestly, I don’t think I’m fat at all. I’m very happy with my postpartum self, and confident in the body that successfully birthed a whole...
by Brittany Tiedmann | Pregnancy and Your Newborn
Getting Real with Brittany Tiedemann I can’t wait for the day my daughter comes up to me and asks where we got her name. Most people will being telling a tale of how they are named after someone in their family or a close friend. Well, our daughter won’t have that....
by Shadra Bruce | Home and Hearth
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce It’s time for spring cleaning. The evidence in our home is rampant, from dirty windows to enough dust bunnies under the bed you can see the imprint from our slippers. I really don’t like cleaning the house. If I was less...
by Kira Hazledine | On Motherhood, Pregnancy and Your Newborn
Getting Real with Kira Hazledine My husband and I don’t like to announce that we’ve made the decision to expand our family (and reduce our sanity) until our pregnancy is about 12 weeks along. But really, I should have known better. My first pregnancy was difficult...
by Kira Hazledine | On Motherhood, Pregnancy and Your Newborn
Getting Real with Kira Hazledine We just announced our second pregnancy, and we couldn’t be more excited. Yay! Too bad my feelings were mixed when that pregnancy test was positive. I remember being so excited with my first born. Everything was new and interesting!...
by Kira Hazledine | Parenting, Toddlers
Getting Real with Kira Hazledine Bedtime is supposed to be this nice, relaxing time between the parent and the child, right? Everyone snuggled up together, reading some stories, and watching the little one slowly drift to sleep. Except not. Not in this house. Bedtime...
by Tammy Torres | Healthy Eating
Getting Real with Tammy Torres They say “If there is a Will, there is a Way” or is it, “If you have a Way to Live, you won’t need to write a Will?” We all need “Will”! Will Power, Will To Live, Will to Pass On…. At my doctor’s appointment yesterday, the...
