This week has brought more heartache and devastation to our country, but in true American fashion the outpouring of compassion and support hasn’t waned.

Facebook is full of touching videos, pleas for donations, and resources for help.

But what I continue to see is parents posting about their children’s reactions to the news coverage. The questions. The heart break on their young faces because most are just too young and incapable of understanding the kind of tragedy Oklahoma is enduring. (more…)

If I had a dime for every vomit story I had with my three children, chances are I would be a lot more well off than I am now. Between the grocery store, our local diner,  multiple episodes in the car, and of course just in the comfort of our living room… there is a story for everyone!

But the other night when we had yet again, a vomit emergency in our house I realized something. No matter who tries to help your child when they are sick, whether it is a father, stranger, or even their grandfather. They only want one person.

Mommy.

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Parents, let’s face it. The worst part of being a parent is bedtime. Not the actual act of our angelic children sleeping, but the process in which they become satanic beasts and whale on until they fall asleep.

Oh, bedtime doesn’t consist of those kind of hysterics in your house? Well LA-DE-DA aren’t you fucking lucky?

When I had one child, which was a short 17 months in my house, I would rock my oldest son to sleep. Humming to him and wasting hours on end on bed time. And I didn’t care. I had not a care in the world. But once our second, and then third child surfaced, bed time turned into pure chaos. (more…)

A couple weeks ago, on a Thursday night (which is Fire Department Drill night) I was on my own to get the kids off to bed. Not that big of a challenge. Typically they are nice and tired once 8pm rolls around and getting them into their PJ’s and squared away in bed isn’t an issue.

Apparently this night they weren’t going to make it easy for me. Totally fine, not the worst I have had. LOL

While getting everyone ready I put up the baby gate in the doorway of Addison’s room to keep them all cornered and ran to go get diapers and PJ’s out of the clean laundry.

Camden can get over the gate with ease, nothing new. I just wasn’t prepared for what would happen next. (more…)

A Guest Post by Monique E.

After my girlfriend Monique wrote an awesome guest post about the drama over Gabby Douglas’s hair, I knew she would become a frequent guest poster on my website. I also knew she wouldn’t fight me on it because it would keep me off her back when it came to starting her own blog. If we are being serious though, she is hysterical and since I have known her for twenty two years of my life I am qualified to say that.

When she went off last night on Facebook about her friends kids, I begged her to turn the comedy of her long drawn out Facebook status into a guest post. I won, and she called me a brat. The following is a guest post from Monique E. on being childless, and her take on some of her friends children.

Please keep in mind this is a humor post and no children were harmed in the process. (more…)

Once you have a potty trained child, one thing that never fails is the fact that they will need to use EVERY public restroom they come in contact with. Hell, any within a 500 foot radius.

Last night we decided to take the kids to Friendly’s for a treat. It is a local chain restaurant who is really famous for their ice cream, which of course is everyone’s favorite part of the meal.

As we were getting ready to leave and head home, our oldest son chimed in about how he needed to pee. Whatever, like usual I trooped him to the women’s restroom and lead him into the bathroom stall.

I let him close the door behind him. Recently we have started to really stress “privacy” when we go to the bathroom. I don’t want him in the bathroom when we are going, and he is starting to feel the same about sharing the bathroom with either of us parental units. (more…)

I love the AboutOne website. For someone as scatterbrained as I am, the simple organization it helps me with is a life saver.

Recently I was approached to work with AboutOne on a post opportunity, and of course I jumped on it since they are actually one of the companies I used often and firmly stand behind.

There are so many great features of the website, but I think my favorite is the option to keep track of upcoming appointments. I added all my children into my “family” on the website, and I can divide appointments up by child, or for the family as a whole. When I log in I can see it all on one neat and easy to manage screen. (more…)

Shit My Kids Say is a new series I am going to be debuting on my blog! We all have those moments with hysterical things our kids say to us, whether it is because they don’t know better, or because they are just being sassy.

If you want to submit your own, you can e-mail it to me at Danielle.Elwood@gmail.com.
Be sure to include your name and a link (if you blog!)

My oldest son turned four years old in December.

He is always amazing me in new ways. And a couple weeks ago he said the sweetest thing to me while I was packing up some hand me down clothes for a friend of mine expecting a little girl this spring.

He picked up a little shoe out of the pile and said : (more…)

I hate car seats…

I know, it sounds really bad, they keep our kids safe, and I totally appreciate that. I would never in a million years consider putting my kid in the car without one. EVER! But it doesn’t mean I have to actually like them, or even love them.

But I know I am not the only mother out there who feels this way, and I am sure all the dads agree with us. I know my husband does. He is one car seat away from a brain aneurism. No joke!

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This morning Addison went for her appointment with a cranio-facial plastic surgeon affiliated with the Yale Children’s Hospital.

First things first… I could not rave about Yale as a whole enough. They took care of my high risk needs when I was pregnant with Addison, and always had amazingly fantastic experiences there. This time was no different.

The office we went to was clean, catered to kids obviously, but of all ages… toys for Addie’s age group and up. And I did not have to wait long at all. We had a 10am appointment and were there by 9:45 and I didn’t even have time to fill out all the paperwork before they called us in.

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I figured it out… the secret to keeping my two toddlers from not killing each other.

No crying… no pushing… no whining… no fighting over toys… no jealousy… It is almost like these are two different little boys.

And I discovered it all this morning while I was getting out of my super quick 5 minute mom shower… (more…)