Tag Archives: Mothering Well

"Mommy, those are not nice words!" I stop dead in my tracks, processing what he said and feeling conviction spread over me. Sigh. He's right. Once again, I'm red in the face because I said something u...

I assume that you've played "The Balloon Game" at parties. You know, the one where you bat balloons up in the air and they can't touch the ground or you're "out"? My family plays this game whenever we...

The holidays are difficult for many people, but when you've just gone through a divorce, it's even worse. Holidays are the time to see and spend time with family, and your family has just changed dram...

If you know anything about me from reading my blogs on AllMomDoes, you know that I love Hallmark Christmas movies. I've discussed my love for it extensively. Recently, I was given the opportunity to d...

If I had a dollar for every time I felt guilty about something I did (or didn't do) with respect to my kids, I would have about a billion dollars. Do you know how many dollars my husband would have? Z...

Do you hear the hoofbeats? The gallop approaching from a formerly distant calendar shore? Yep. It's the coming retail apocalypse. And if history serves as any guide, there will be that one item this y...

These days, Dads are really stepping up to the plate and doing so much more than their ancestors ever did. In earlier times, men weren't as involved with child-rearing. They didn't change diapers or t...

This is a story of a mom, just a regular ol' mom of three boys who so desperately wanted to delight her boys that she fried her brain in an attempt to build them a fort of epic proportions. She was ne...

Let me start by saying I used the word "fat" many times before and have come to even accept it over the past few years. I've been plus sized long enough to be content with the size I am, focusing more...

When I was raising kids, cell phones weren't a common thing. Only a very few people had one (mostly business people who wanted a status symbol). They seemed pretentious and completely unnecessary at t...