real moms {sharing} all things fabulous
We have lots of bumps and bruises in this house. Lots of them. My youngest still believes that a bandaid can cure all that ails you. While my other kids have learned that bandaids don’t quite work like that, they have discovered that a little ice on a big ol’ bump will make things better….
“Just one more paragraph,” she says when I call her name and I know exactly how she feels. She’s heard me say it a thousand times. She’s said it herself at least a hundred times. When you’re knee-deep in a good story, it’s hard to tear away. You always want to read just one more…
Recently a friend and I were talking about all the things our parents and, even more so, our grandparents know that we don’t know. We may be able to google up the answer to any of the billion off-the-wall question our kids ask. We may be able to skype with friends who live in other…
I am a writer. I write stories. I write reviews. I write notes. I write lists. I have journals filled with words and scribbles and doodles and this and that. And my children, like many children, copycat what they see Mom doing. So they write and doodle and draw. Even the 3 year old has…
This summer has been full, y’all. Really full. We’ve been in and out a lot but doing things that we all enjoy, like going to the library, the bowling alley, and the pool. We’ve even taken a few short trips to the beach and the mountains. But we’ve also had days where we haven’t gotten…
Almost every night, even in the summer, we read aloud to our children. My husband corrals the little two and reads a few picture or early reader books with the younger two while I read a few chapters to the older two. At this point, they are more than capable to read on their own…
Did you know that all month long we’ve been doing a fun little challenge on instagram? Each day has a prompt and all you have to do is take and share a picture on instagram with the hashtag #aSIMPLEjuly. It’s not too late to join the fun! I’m really having fun with this challenge but…
I don’t live in a pinterest-perfect house. I never will. Even once the kids are grown and gone, I can’t imagine that I’ll ever be able to have everything exactly as it should be all the time. It’s just not who I am. But even if it’s not photo-ready all the time, I still love…
My mood is easily swayed by music. It baffles my husband because he’s not that way at all. I can be in a perfectly good mood and an “angry” song will come on the radio and by the time it’s over I’ve turned into a grouch. But the opposite is often true as well. So…
If you’d asked me a month ago what eeBoo was, I would have had no idea. But now? It’s my go-to store for kid toys, games, and crafts. eeBoo is a boutique toy manufacturer that specializes in useful, beautiful and well-made educational games and gifts. Their products are sold in specialty toy stores, high-end gift…
When I was little, my grandparents had a garden. In the summer, as soon as we walked in the door to their house, we would head to the table to find the bowl of tomatoes. They grew the best little tiny tomatoes and always had a bowl of them ready for us when we got…
Two little tidbits about me for ya: 1) I was 22 before I ever had my first cavity and 2) I brushed my teeth 2 (often 3) times a day until I got pregnant with my first child. Then every time I put my toothbrush in my mouth, I gagged and…um…it never ended well. We…