Author Archives: Stephanie O'Farrell

Do you have those days where you weren’t necessarily planning on it, but your day ends up with no time to pit stop at home between work, kid pick-up, soccer and dance class? Here are some ideas ...

We all want the very best for our children, but it’s impossible to do everything right all the time.  Admitting that is freeing – and it’s also encouraging to other moms in the ...

When I was pregnant with my firstborn, I used to cringe when someone would exclaim “pregnancy brain!” every time I so much as paused to answer a question. Non-pregnant people can once in a...

One day as I was lugging in six bags of groceries on one arm and a toddler in the other, I thought, there has to be an easier way to do this that doesn’t involve marks on my arm and stress on my...

Beyond things like great benefits, what are the top things you value in a workplace? For me it’s things like trust, care, flexibility and respect. I think I would be miserable in a job where my ...

Kids are like little petri dishes for germs. While I will say that my two and five year old have apparently built up good antibodies, I apparently have not.  Sometimes I feel like my kids get hom...

I have fallen in love with this recipe for Chili Lime Cashews. I read a recipe in a magazine for them but then couldn’t remember the exact ingredients (and had already recycled the m...

Moms, hear this:  You can't always be there for everything, and that's okay. I never drop my kids off at school. Or so rarely, that I can probably count the times on my hand...

Do you ever daydream of taking your children’s energy and messes somewhere other than your house? What do you do when your kids say they are sick of the park and a picnic isn’t...

I came across an article in Psychology Today discussing the quantity versus quality of sleep. It said moms of newborns are getting 7.2 hours of sleep a night. Yes, I blurted out the question you are a...