There are only so many years for you to plan the silly, cutsie birthday parties before your kids start having opinions and wanting input. I discovered this about two years ago when my big boys turned 3 and 4. They wanted to have a Train, Superhero, gymnastics party and I…
Over the years I have amassed a lot of holiday décor. Seriously my house looks like Christmas exploded inside. I shop at the normal places like Hobby Lobby and Target but I have also found some off the beaten path places to get items too. It’s always fun to have…
Each year in the first week of December my husband and I take all three kids down to the city for our Christmas Tree Scavenger Hunt. We came up with this idea a few years back because a lot of the fun things to do at Christmas time are at…
Christmas is quickly approaching which means you are narrowing down your Christmas list and your kids are probably working on theirs too. If your house is anything like my house, you do not need any more toys. No matter how many times I ask for people to put money in…
It seems like the new trend is getting back to nature. People are eating paleo and birthing naturally and living minimally. It’s all about being more basic these days. I am not a minimalist by any means. In my mind I would like to be but in reality I am…
Each year my family hosts all of our friends at our house for the first Saints game. It’s really something that we have grown to love doing. You know as well as I do that as we get older and have more kids it’s just not always possible to get…
I have gained a lot of experience with adding each child to my family. I feel like the thing my third gave to me was an ability to not care what people think about me or their opinions about the choices I make for my family. After all most people…
Northshore Parent Mom’s Night Out is a little less than a month away and I don’t know about you but I have been thinking about what I am going to wear. If you haven’t started planning yet now is the time because stores are transferring out their hot pink and…
The Northshore has really done a lot since I moved here to offer fun and festive events that the community can get excited about. My husband and I often travel to New Orleans for outdoor events but in the last several years the Northshore has been keeping us over here….
For most of my adult life when I would talk about having a baby, I would always joke and say that I was going to have a scheduled c-section. It was widely known that I wasn’t the best when it came to pain and the thought of labor and an epidural…