I recently found myself in a situation where I had to quickly and without much warning pack up a home I had lived in and loved for 16 years. I finished raising my family there, I divorced and remarried. My children left and came back; my mother moved in; renters moved in and out. We celebrated my 50th birthday there, had 2 wedding receptions, graduation … Continue reading 12 Tips for MOVING or Downsizing Quickly
“Juicy gifts!” I love that! My friend recently wrote me, having a difficult time with some changes in her life. In describing them, she said that there is room for growth in the “juicy gifts.” Wow! That really spoke to me! Yes, juicy can be luscious and also messy! Think of an orange – slice it open and juice squishes out everywhere. Bite into it … Continue reading “Juicy” Gifts…. from the Universe
I know from time to time I have talked about the Mommy Wars and how they can affect mothers. Here is another post about how we as mothers need to support each other more. We really don’t know the other side of it. As much as we want to think we have been through it, we really don’t know. We only know what people want … Continue reading Moms Need to Support Moms
What do you love about fall? Here’s my top ten reasons! Continue reading 10 Reasons I Love Fall
This past Monday, a holiday for me, I planned on taking my grandchildren to the Pumpkin Patch. But it was raining. So we did Halloween crafts at home instead! I have a background as a preshool teacher and had three children of my own. So I’ve done lots of crafts through the years and I love holiday crafts in particular, but all of that was … Continue reading Halloween Craft – Spider Web!
As a parent, I do not like spending money on cheap things for myself or for my family. I think that overall it is a waste of money. I would rather save and buy something that costs a little more, but is better quality. This is really true when it comes to Halloween costumes. Last year was the first year that my children kind of … Continue reading DIY Halloween Costumes
In this generation, social media is in most parent’s everyday lives. Whether it is through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Pinterest more and more parents, especially mothers are bombarded with the way that they should parent, creating picture perfect ideas of parenting. These ideas are both unnatural and unrealistic for the average mom to achieve on a daily basis. With one click of a button a … Continue reading Mothers and Social Media
We knew something needed to change when my son, 3.5 years old, was fighting with us daily to go down for a nap. Even the days that he didn’t go down for a nap, he wouldn’t really start to melt until almost bedtime. The days that he would take a nap we were fighting him to go down at night, usually resulting in him not … Continue reading Growing Out of a Nap
I am a firm believer of starting your children off early when it comes to reading. I am the type of parent where I want them to destroy books, because that means that they are going through the pages and looking at the pictures, creating their own stories. We have over 700 books in our library, another 700 on our kindles, and even more in … Continue reading Tips to Get your Child to Love to Read
I swore before I had children that I would not be one of those parents that would give their children electronics, Ipad, or playing on my phone. Then I had children and my ideas changed. It started with the phone. We used it as a last resort to help occupy my son when we needed to do something for a couple of minutes. We noticed … Continue reading I never thought…..
ART with Angela DiCicco, The Italian Grandmama's Guide 