In my lifetime, I have been in 3 car accidents. Two of which were with my son in the car (none of which were my fault). Because of that, I strive to be the safest driver I can be, to keep my children in the safest car seats available (this includes extended rear facing and [...]
In my never-ending quest to reduce my impact on the earth, and to keep toxins out of my home and away from my family, we have switched from paper products to cloth. Cloth diapers, cloth napkins, cloth wipes, and now: cloth menstrual pads. If you’ve never heard of cloth pads (AKA mama cloth), keep reading! [...]
Tags: fuzzibunz, gladrags, going green, mama cloth, product review
When expecting your third child, you think you know exactly how and when the baby is going to come. You’ve had some practice, and this baby can’t be that different. So of course it’s surprising when you realize how untrue that is. My second child made her appearance after just 4 hours of labor, at [...]
Tags: baby, birth, breastfeeding, labor, natural, pregnancy, water birth
Search engines are weird creatures. People who are driving to drive traffic, equally so, as they’ll often add keywords to posts that are not relevant in the slightest. But the weirdest of all is probably search engine USERS. You know how search engines are always “improving” to get you more accurate results? Honestly, what they [...]
Tags: google searches, keywords, search engines, SEO, tag words, traffic
It’s been a slow week around these parts, but as promised, here’s some food for your Friday! Super easy, minimal effort, one pot soup with lots of flavor. I based it off of Olive Garden’s recipe for their Italian Sausage soup, but mine was pretty darned tasty. The only differences are minor, such as I [...]
Tags: Food Friday, recipe, recipes, soup
Christie instructed me to write up a “Food Friday” post for this week, but my Friday slipped away from me. Ooops! So, here we are: “Scrumptious Saturday.” Today’s recipe is not really a recipe, but a super fun food to make that everyone will love, is much healthier than the delivery version, and will last [...]
Tags: baking, food, homemade, Scrumptious Saturday
We’re parents, which means we have bills, jobs (and yes, stay-at-home-mom definitely counts as a job!), and obligations. On top of that, we want a clean house, home-cooked meals, and smart kids. But at what cost to our kids? Follow @dailymomtra
Tags: dads, development, discipline, kids, moms, parents, stress
Every day, we make little decisions. Coffee or tea with breakfast? Walk or bike to work? Pants or a skirt? These are decisions that don’t really make a difference in the way we live our lives. It’s not going to change the world if you have tea instead of coffee, whether you walk or bike. [...]
