Category Archives: AllMomDoes

It’s perfectly fine and healthy for kids to be bored.  In fact, it’s good for them.  But when you just can’t stand it any longer, or want to plan a fun, memorab...

1979. There’s 11 acres of untouched wilderness on a river in Washington State. My Dad boards a plane in Seattle, flies over for the day, walks the land, purchases the land and then flies back to...

You know that thing when you need to just get it all out and externally process all the emotions and intricacies of The Big Problem in your life and then your friend starts trying to solve The Big Pro...

Both my kids have summer birthdays. This means that I'm usually safe for good weather, but the flip side is that throwing two parties in two months can be stressful. I am not a Pinterest mom, nor do I...

Has the novelty of summer vacation worn off (even if it’s just started)? Are your kids (and very possibly you) looking for some new stuff to do? Keep reading to find new ways t...

We recently moved into a new house, and “cosmetic fixer” is putting it nicely.  As I walked through the place giving my friend the grand tour and pointing out all the proj...

We camped a lot before we had kids. It was just sort of our thing and we loved it. Many times we stayed up late, looking up at the stars and as we sat there, we talked about how someday, we’d ha...

I picked one of my teen daughters up this morning from a friend’s house to go work at her older sister’s for the day. Job description: babysit and do chores. She began to kind o...

Where does all our money go? Do you ever ask yourself this? It’s amazing how quickly trips to Costco and Starbucks can add up. Not to mention, of course, those pesky bills...

Can you believe that July is here already?  Seriously, what happened to June?  (Or, the rest of 2015 for that matter).  In the spirit of being unprepared and in denial, I have gathered ...