by Shadra Bruce | Parenting, Raising Healthy Kids, Special Needs, Toddlers
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce My granddaughter Hallie has recently made giant leaps with her communication milestones. She progressed along the continuum of saying mama, dada, and nana; those words were followed fairly closely by the other members of her household...
by Brittany Tiedmann | Everything Baby, On Motherhood, Parenting
Getting Real with Brittany Tiedmann I have a lot of non-mom friends. I am one of the first in my group of friends to have a baby. Everyone was so excited for us and ready to spoil the baby as much as possible. Gifts came right and left from them with so much...
by Shadra Bruce | Parenting, Stepparenting
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce “When I first began dating my husband and things were getting serious, I started doing the math. He had a 10-year old son and 6-year old twins, so I had about 12 years of stepparenting ahead of me. I was wondering to myself whether or...
by Kira Hazledine | On Motherhood, Raising Healthy Kids, Toddlers
Getting Real with Kira Hazledine Let me tell you a story about an angry mother and an outdated pediatrician. Last week, Hallie came down with a sudden fever. I saw all the signs early of something that just didn’t look good, so I took her in to the doctor. We will...
by Brittany Tiedmann | Everything Baby, Making Memories, Parenting
Getting Real with Brittany Tiedmann This year will be the first Christmas with our new baby. Since we had her in October, my husband and I had agreed that because she is so small we wouldn’t do gifts for her this year. Now before you jump down my throat here let...
by Shadra Bruce | Making Memories, Parenting, Travel
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce We love road trips. We’ve done two cross-country road trips for vacation (around a month long each) in addition to our five cross-country moves (just a road trip with all of our stuff in tow). In fact, a road trip can make a great...
