Once August hits, the reality that summer is coming to a close and the school is just around the corner starts to sink in. These back to school organization, printables and tips will help you have your best year yet. This school year we will have three in school! Hudson will be half day with preschool, Eleanor will be in Kindergarten and Quinn will be in second grade! It isn't just school that is startings, but soccer and dance as well. If any of this sounds familiar you are going to want ...
Parenting
Raising a Family is Hard
Disclosure: This post was sponsored by OxiClean ™ through their partnership with POPSUGAR.While I was compensated by POPSUGAR to write a post about OxiClean ™ all opinions are my own. Raising a family is hard work. Having four kids has taught me a lot of things. I often have people tell me that they don't know how I do it, or that they couldn't. That their two have them exhausted and they could never have four. But I'm not any more special than those people. I don't do it ...
This Thing Called Life
We have been so busy doing life. This mother's day questionnaire from Eleanor shows that not all my hard work has gone unnoticed. Sometimes it feels like that is all I spend my life doing. The kids are officially done with school and all the sudden I'm stuck wondering where the year went. How is it summer already? It is crazy to think that when this school year started, Fiona wasn't even here yet! Fiona turned six months April 20, so we had to do a six month photo shoot for her. ...
How to Get Your Toddler to Sleep Through the Night
One simple trick got our toddler to sleep through the night. With four kids, one being a brand new baby, you would think the baby was the one causing us to lose sleep. Turns out, it was our toddler! Fiona is pretty much a rockstar sleeper. She might wake once for a quick feeding and then back to bed. Hudson, our nearly three-year-old had started waking up regularly and was no longer sleeping through the night. After being a rock-solid sleeper for really long time, our toddler started ...
10 Steps To A Great School Year and Raising A Stand Up Kid
1. Sit down with you child and explain to them your expectation. Tell them how you expect them to act in the classroom, lunchroom, hallway, recess, etc. Tell them how you expect them to treat adults and other children. So many parents assume their child knows how they are expected to act in school and would be astonished if they were a fly on the wall in their child's classroom. Don't assume your child knows, make sure they know. Sitting down to have this kind of conversation tells them you ...
