Ages + Stages

Whenever my son is home on a college break, we like to set aside a day to find new hidden gems or old favorites around town. On the flip side, my husband and daughter, who is in law school,...

The end of the school year is approaching, and no one deserves love and appreciation more than our teachers. We've got some creative teacher gift ideas to make the end of the year special. Their job is as multifaceted as...

My oldest son is approaching age 12, which means he's becoming a tween boy. He is growing closer to a height where he's able to look me directly in the eye and as wondrous and exciting a time it...

One Minute More It's 3:52 AM. “Sleep now,” everyone said as I neared the end of my pregnancy. Numbers run through my head hours, ounces, the time she last ate, and the length of last night’s stretch. How long had she...

One evening when I was scrolling through my phone, I came across a photo from what seems like a lifetime ago, January 7, 2020. My now 3-year-old was just 20 months and my 1.5-year-old wasn’t even a month old....

My eldest son recently returned home from an 11-day sleepaway camp in the North Georgia mountains. He returned a bit taller, his voice was a bit raspier, and a bit more sure of himself. Meanwhile, I was a blubbering mess.  My...

For some families, Saturday mornings are dedicated to big breakfasts, for others, it’s a day synonymous with morning cartoons. I’m not much of a cook and my two-year-old daughter is completely incapable of sitting through a tv show, so...

Are you sad?  Are you moving? What are you going to do with all your time now? These are a few of the questions I get asked as I begin the phase of a parent’s life called, “empty nest.” With my youngest...

Kumon is offering free registration through July 15th! After a school-year full of challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many students across the country were unsurprisingly left with larger-than-average learning gaps. In-person learning was largely put on pause, and although...

I have two daughters with whom I was able to walk, well more like stumble, through these curious years of life called middle school, and I find myself feeling such compassion for moms around me during their similar season...