The Personal Blog of a Gen X Mom.
It seems like I blinked and 2014 is gone! It’s been a good year for our little family. We rang in the new year exactly like we did last year…on the couch watching all of the New Year’s Eve shows on TV and trying to stay awake until midnight. My View Post
One activity our family really enjoyed in 2014 was catching up on movies and shows we love through Netflix Streaming. Over the holidays we gorged ourselves on Christmas movies and really enjoyed the quality time we spent together doing so. One View Post
One of my favorite Christmas traditions while growing up was baking Christmas cookies and making candies with my mom. There were three specific old family recipes that we whipped up every year and we still do. It’s a special time I View Post
So, yeah. This happened. Apparently our homemade Elf on the Shelf just wasn’t going to cut it this year. The other night I was informed by my son (through tears, might I add) that he and one other child in his class were the only ones who didn’t View Post
Having and being a friend is such an important topic to discuss with children, and my wish for my son is that he will find the kind of friends that I made in school that are still my very closest friends to this day. They were there for me, View Post
It’s back to school time and that means early mornings, lots of homework, and busy days. Getting back into the swing of the new school year definitely makes our family appreciate our weekends a little more. After a long week at school and View Post
I can remember my son’s very first day of school like it was yesterday. We were so excited to have enrolled him in three-year-old kindergarten and he had such a great morning getting prepared before I took him to school. He woke up without a fuss, View Post
It seems like it has been forever since I updated with a personal post, so I thought I would document some things here for posterity. That, and my blog has become a real snore! I have a third grader now. Here he is on his first day of View Post
If there is one value I have tried to instill in my son, it’s that he should always be kind. Growing up in a culture where being cruel is often thought of as funny and cool, I want my son to know the difference and be accepting of others, View Post
School may be out for summer, but that’s no excuse to let the learning stop. Along with his summer reading assignments, our son is also learning more about the world around him by watching some really cool shows on Netflix. So far, his View Post
Hands down, one of the most popular children’s book series that flies off of the shelves in my library is Judy Moody by Megan McDonald. The Judy Moody book series, targeted at 6-9 year olds, is written about a feisty and independent-minded girl View Post
