Teaching kindness to our children is something that my husband and I didn’t have to discuss. We both know it is a priority, and (looking back) we both started down the same path with Caroline right from birth. It is my philosophy that you can never start too early! There are two main ways that …
Mama’s Organized Chaos
I will always remember this smile! Dear Chelsea, This letter is so hard to write. I know we did the right thing by putting you down. You were so miserable. It was just SO sudden. Sunday you were fine. Monday you were not. By Wednesday you were trembling in pain all day. I knew it …
Dear Caroline, Last night we lost part of our family. You aren’t old enough to understand yet, but Chelsea isn’t coming home again. She was in so much pain that we had to put her down. She is sleeping and pain free now. Chelsea was Mama’s first love. I found her at a shelter when …
Welcome to Babywise Friendly Blog Network (BFBN) Day! Each month we will get the pleasure of featuring a guest blogger from the BFBN. Today, I am honored to welcome Kim from Team Cartwright. Her post is all about her personal experience on implementing schedules with her 2.5 year old and now 2 month old twins! Her life …
Every mom does it… we think too much. We worry about when our toddlers should be learning certain skills, etc. We all know not to compare children, but we sometimes do anyway. We all know that they are learning so much every day, even if they don’t sit down and have focused learning sessions. We …
Our Learning Tower is a HUGE hit so far!!! So I had heard the term learning tower and decided to look it up one day. Turns out a learning tower is what I would call an awesome kitchen stool- maybe I’d name it the kitchen helper! It is essentially a stool that has a rail …
Caroline just loved Easter! On Saturday, we decided to dye Easter eggs with her. She had an absolute blast dipping, then dunking the eggs into the dye. She even used the tool and helped to lift them out of the dye! My family has a tradition of hiding the actual Easter basket somewhere in the …
Caroline is just about 16 months old, and we have always done some form of independent play time. The look of this “independent” time is changing, however. Below you will find a breakdown of how independent play has changed for us over the last 16 months, the reasons to do independent play, and the ideal …