Tips & Tricks

We all experience anxiety, especially during life’s challenges, and yoga can help ease anxiety big-time and start you on the track to feeling more like the happy mama you were meant to be. We all face stressful times, like when a...

Don't you love how strangers think they are experts on the adequacy of our parenting? Whether it is through unwarranted advice, blatant whispering, or even a positive remark, they want to let you know how you are doing as a parent. This has been...

Before my son was born, I didn't really think too much about bedtime rituals. I had many friends who were already parents, and most of them were laissez-faire types, and their kids seemed good with that style. I just...

If you have read some of my other posts, you know that I love taking photographs and that I especially love photographing and documenting my family, particularly my two girls. But…sometimes getting a fun shot of my pint-sized perpetual...

There is an art to throwing a successful toddler party, and it has very little to do with Pinterest. I’ve been throwing grown-up parties for years and years B.C. (Before Chuck); however, a signature cocktail and a killer playlist are...

It seems like everywhere these days there are articles, blog posts, books, and Pinterest pages galore dedicated to de-cluttering, organizing, and purging. My co-FCMB contributor, Michelle, even recently wrote about her experience reading and implementing the KonMari method, which is...

I was THE babysitter growing up. It was what I did from the time I was 13 until after college! Being in and out of so many houses, one thing that always stuck out was that each family had...

When I first had my daughter, I wanted to savor (and save) every single memory. I took hundreds of pictures each day, saved just about every outfit, and tried to keep every memento I could. In theory it was a wonderful...

Since I see this question come up so often I thought it was fitting to blog about how I Disney! I LOVE Disney. LOVE. Disney. I’ve traveled as a kid, as a teen, and even before my husband and I...

Sure, I’ve been a believer in  affirmations for some time and use them to stay positive and focus my mind on my goals. To “affirm” something, by dictionary definition, means that you declare it to be true. But it wasn’t until...