After my son saw the local Boy Scouts selling Christmas trees in the town square last year, that was it, he insisted on joining the local troop.
He asked how old he had to be to join the troop and...
Spring is finally here in Vermont! This means the first day it hits over 50 degrees everyone runs into their closet to put on anything other than the wool sweaters we’ve been wearing for the last 8 months! This...
Luckily, Clark and Dean go to daycare at Kid Logic Learning in South Burlington three days a week. The best part of my day is usually when I go there to pick them up and I sneak up and...
I'm in the middle of birthday party madness. Going to parties. Having parties. Oh my word, it doesn't stop. When it's winter in Vermont, there are not many birthday party options other than the dreaded arcade/pizza place. Sure there...
As a working mom, weekends are precious, protected time with my family.
I look forward to the mornings I don't have to rush around the house, trying to get everyone dressed and packed, and to limitless possibilities of playing outdoors,...
Yesterday I dropped a PlayStation controller on my child’s face. Actually, it fell off of a shelf four feet above the ground, directly into the eye of my newborn. The baby everyone describes as the Gerber baby now looks...
I never thought that I wanted to be a stay at home mom. In fact, I never even wanted to be a mom in general until I met my husband. I know it sounds cliche, but for reals, it's...
Ok, let me start off by saying that the advice I am about to give comes not from me, but from every high school guidance counselor working in the field. What is the advice I'm going to impart on...
Texting while driving is a serious issue. But I’m not here to talk about texting. I’m here to talk about something more dangerous than texting. Parenting. More specifically, “Parenting While Driving.”
No really. I’m not poking fun at the texting...
Below are some simple, yet surprising - and maybe not so surprising things- that have really changed since becoming a parent.
1. Birthdays
I like to go all out for my husbands and daughters birthday. Two years ago, For my husbands...
I recently read an article on Scary Mommy about what it’s like to have a traveling husband. It was hilarious and filled with humor that only a parent of a traveling co-parent may fully understand. However as I sat...
And, suddenly, there I was. Driving down a dark, lonely road, in the late hours of a quiet Sunday. Mine were the only headlights causing light to bounce off the pavement and cast shadows among the thick blanket of...
There are a lot of opinions out there about what is necessary for baby. I fall on the more minimal side of things but there's one thing I use every single day (and so does my husband) that is...
I stood in a conference room with about 2,000 other moms as the speaker instructed us to raise our right hand and repeat after her: “Cap’n Crunch is a perfectly acceptable dinner.”
We were being asked to trust that while...
In + Around Vermont
Moving to the Vermont Gayborhood of Our Dreams
My wife and I, with our then 2-year-old, moved to Vermont in 2021 from rural Missouri.
While we had great friends and community in Missouri,...
