Category: Family Life

Yummy Things on Yummly

If you cook and haven’t been on Yummly yet, you need to check it out! Yummly is a Pinterest-type hub specifically for recipes.  You can add recipes to your “Recipe Box” that are already on …

Tips for Avoiding a Picky Eater

It seems everywhere I look lately, there are mommies complaining about picky eaters, how to hide veggies in their kids’ meals and desperately wishing their kids would be “better” eaters.  And then I look around …

Feeling Fetal Flutters

Baby #4 has been sloshing around my belly for well over a month now.  The first time I felt him/her I was kind of surprised.  I was only around 16 weeks along and one morning …

10 Ways to Use a Boppy Pillow

We live pretty simply when it comes to babies, we’ve never had every gadget or device or baby holder available (which is good since I haven’t gotten rid of anything since Honeybun was born!) My …

Tips for Easy Ultrasounds

I don’t want to call myself an “expert” when it comes to ultrasounds (because who really wants to be that unless you’re a licensed tech!) but I have had more than my share of ultrasound …

We’re Having A…

We had our mid-pregnancy anatomy ultrasound scan yesterday morning for baby #4.  And it turns out we’re having a: Raccoon-Frog-Footy Baby!   We took all the kids with us for the scan (as we have …

Pregnancy Fears and Phobias

If you ever have more than one child, you’ll hear it again and again: Every child is different.  Every birth is different.  Every pregnancy is different. I wish I could write some big, profound post …

Favorite Books for Preschoolers

I previously shared my list of favorite books to read with babies and my favorites for toddlers. But as children grow, and they can sit and pay attention for longer periods and become more interested …