by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Making Memories
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Our biggest fear at having a ten-year age difference between our first set of kids (the ones Dave started making without me) and our second set of kids was that we didn’t want the younger ones to catch the disease of teen cynicism too...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Making Memories, Travel
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Cleveland was relaxing and wonderful, a perfect start to our trip. St. Louis was magnificent and friendly. Colorado was majestic and intimidating with it’s high summits and plunging canyons. Utah felt like home, given the family...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Making Memories, Travel
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Saying goodbye to my sister today was supposed to be easy, because we knew we would be seeing each other twice more this month – on the coast and at the family reunion. But the knowledge that we’d soon be heading back to New York and...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Making Memories, Travel
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Spending time with my sister has been an extraordinary pleasure. We truly are the best of friends, but more than that, our children – her 15-year old, her 12-year old twins, my 12-year old, her 10-year old, and my 9-year old – love each...
by MomsGetReal Guest Contributor | Let's Talk, Making Memories
Getting Real With Mary Swan-Bell Lily, my five-year-old whirlwind, loves to hone her fashion designing skills. Unfortunately, sometimes her materials of choice leave something to be desired. Let me be more specific: Two of her favorite textiles are tissues and plastic...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Making Memories
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce There’s been a lot of talk in the mommysphere lately about whether or not we’re going overboard at Christmas with the gifts we buy our kids. Yep. We do. So what?! Ok, so I don’t endorse going completely in debt,...
