Self-care
Put on Your Own Oxygen Mask First
Play Dates for Adults
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce It's all too easy to get wrapped up in the social life of your child. Even when you do spend time interacting with adults, it's often still child-related as if your life was nothing more than birthday parties, teacher conferences, and...
Little Heroes
Despite the fact that we work at home, we are not immune to the demands of life when children return from school. Just because we are home doesn’t mean we’ve tended to the household (you should see the dust that piles up, normally until Dave can't stand it anymore and...
Why Diets Fail
There are many fad diets out there, most targeted specifically at women. Lose 10 pounds in one week, shrink belly fat, and get toned by consuming strange mixtures of maple syrup and cayenne pepper and who knows what else. Fad diets all promise the same thing: they all...
(im)Perfect Moms
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce Being a mom is a full-time job by itself. Balancing family, your personal life, school and work, as well as everything else that life tosses in your direction can sometimes seem overwhelming. One way to save your sanity and learn to...
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Guilt, a State of Being
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...
Without a Microwave and Loving It
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...
