Do you ever just wake up and look in the mirror and see…a mom?! And not the beautiful, skinny, multi-tasking, baking from scratch mom with perfectly behaved children. The bags under the eyes, sweat pant wearing, over grown cuticle having. eau de spoiled milk scented mom! I mean once upon…
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Brookie Brookie Tasty Chili
The weather is finally getting cool out here on the southern west coast and it’s about that time to break out Mama’s famous chili! My mother and father were both very good at making chili in two totally different ways. My mother was more of the organic, less fat and…
A Call To Action~ Protecting Our Babies From Themselves
Yesterday in Chardon, Ohio five sets of parents sent their children to school, today three of those sets are visiting mortuaries and the other two are praying over their children because they victims of a shooting spree in their school’s cafeteria. Yesterday, a young man went to school with a…
Pits, Tar, Dinosaur Bones with a side of Soul Food
Football free Sundays are reserved for Church, Love, Food & Family. Something about being able to just go to breakfast and then end up at a park or a festival, museum or farmer’s market is just the absolute best. I mean usually I am a planner of all planners. I…
Immersion Preschooling
When we moved to San Antonio, Jax had just turned a year old. In my own way I had been homeschooling him since he was born, but Steven and I decided that it was time for him to be around children and have a better education. We really wanted to…
Lattes & Hooligans
I’m not sure if there really is a great side to being a single parent, but there are those moments when it’s just you and your kid(s) bonding over Milk & Lattes. I live for these moments. I love my latte mornings with my hooligan. Sometimes he’s in a costume,…