by admin | Creating Balance
Do you feel guilty as a mom? I do. I feel guilty for spending too much time working and not enough time with my kids. I feel guilty when I’m too tired to engage with my kids and would just rather sneak out onto the front porch with a glass of wine (or, if it was a...
by admin | Creating Balance
While we are not fanatical, we try to ensure that the kids (and us) take advantage of any minor changes in lifestyle and diet that we can to help promote health. We got rid of BPA plastic when the studies started showing that it posed danger and switched over to...
by admin | Stress Management
My husband, Dave, is a mother hen. Well, perhaps he would prefer the term father rooster. In any case, he and I have very different ways of managing parenting stress. When it comes to worrying about the every day stuff — the stuff that is typically attributed to the...
by admin | Stress Management
Two years ago, my family and I loaded up a big moving truck, packed our van with suitcases, snacks, and maps, and headed from Boise, Idaho to Bath, New York. It was the second time we’d made the trip. Dave and I met and married in Boise. Our son was born there....
