Category: A Mommy’s Life

When your in-laws are coming, You’ll decide to break from homeschooling for a week. And when you tell your kids they’ll be really excited, until… You tell them they still have to finish the work …

About a week ago, I got an e-mail from someone who randomly found Beyond Mommying. It’s not unusual for me to get random e-mails from brands, writers, PR companies and others. What was different about …

You know what really sucks about this whole keeping-tiny-humans-alive thing? Feeding them. Seems like a silly thing to complain about, right? I’m mean…there’s the crying and fighting and not sleeping and diapers. I mean, there’s …

Every once in awhile, I look back at posts from year’s past. With Mother’s Day being a Sunday holiday and late this year, I’ve been having a lot of past Mother’s Day posts popping up …

We’re not strangers to death around here. Four grandparents in 18 months, my aunt less than a year before that and most recently our first kitty baby. I’ve always accepted death as a part of …

I’ve never really liked the term “stay-at-home mom” because that’s not what I do. A more accurate term would be “run-around-like-crazy-getting-my-kids-to-all-the-places mom,” but “RALCGMKTATPM” just doesn’t roll off the tongue as nicely. And while I …

I’m a busy mommy to four. I homeschool my daughters while trying to keep my sons from destroying the house. I try to squeeze in nap time and healthy meals around my daughters’ packed dance …

This is the final part of the a three-post series. Three different events, one after the other, that have changed life as we knew it. Read part one and part two. Sunday started as any …

Even when you know something is going to happen and you’ve had plenty of time to prepare, the blow is not always lessened. This is the second part of the a three-post series. Three different …

They say things happen in threes. That life blows will come three at a time. It’s assumed that once three “bad” things happen, you’ll be in the clear (at least until a new cycle starts.) …