We’ve always been a homeschool family, and we love it. I love the flexibility of being able to travel and visit theme parks during the week (we live about an hour from Orlando), and generally do things however and whenever I want to do them. We are eclectic homeschoolers, taking bits and pieces from different curricula to find the right
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Adolescence is upon us. I’m officially the mother of a teenager. Everyone says it, but when you’re a brand new mother with a newborn, you can’t possibly imagine that it really will fly by so fast. “The days are long but the years are short,” they say. They are right. I never thought I’d be excited about my children reaching
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Today I want to share a few recent stories from my home where I have been able to see the effects of many years of practicing Consciously Parenting. I have been doing this for 13 years. 13 years of investing in learning about how to parent differently, practicing the way I want to respond to my children’s emotions and behaviors,
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I wrote this last summer, during my surprise pregnancy. July 2018 My husband and I have two kids: a 10-year-old daughter and a 13-year-old son. We have always been open to having more children, but between my history of infertility and our feelings of contentment with two, we figured that our family was complete and we were good with that.
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I started looking into birthing options in 1999 when I was a freshman in college, where I would watch A Baby Story on TLC in my dorm room. One episode of the show included a mom who had a home waterbirth, and as soon as I saw it, I had to know more. That episode started me on my journey
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This is the story of discovering my very shocking pregnancy after infertility, and how we handled it as a family. June 3, 2018 I woke up this morning feeling like something was definitely going on, and took a pregnancy test like I’ve done so many times before. In fact, it was the 49th in a pack of 50 cheap tests
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My kids are 3.5 years apart, a boy and a girl, and they are best friends. Since we homeschool, they are together all the time. They each have their own friends and their own activities, but they spend the majority of their time together. They get along really well, but like all siblings, they have plenty of opportunities for repairing hurt
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When you have little ones, there is a lot of talk about how “it’s just a phase” and “this too shall pass,” whether it’s about picky eating, tantrums, or some other behavior deemed inappropriate in our society. While it is true that many of those behaviors do pass with time, I definitely wasn’t expecting to still witness full toddler-style tantrums
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