Raising Three Little Princesses

This is my mothers day picture, it was taken a week late but at least I got one! I look huge but that’s ok   The discomforts of pregnancy and craziness of toddlers and preschoolers is a small price to pay to be a mother of precious little girls. JJ and I happily give up [...]

Sariah is officially learning to read! We are using the book “Teaching Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons”. By easy I think they mean that it is easy to plan the lessons and because they make learning to read for the child a slow process where they slowly build upon concepts in each [...]

Saturday morning I woke up Sariah and Bekah to go on an Easter Egg hunt at a local grocery store. Waking them up was so cute, they were sleeping in the same bed (they sleep together most nights now). I decided to open the door and pull their blinds up to have them wake up [...]

From the moment we learn that we are going to have a new child, us moms begin to worry about that child and I’m sure that even after my children have children of their own I will still worry. If my children sleep in later than usual I always worry and I go check on [...]

A lot of parents are concerned with the amount of sugar in their children’s diet including myself and for very good reasons too. Too much sugar weakens the immune system, reduces long term energy levels and can also lead to obesity. General Mills has committed to reducing sugar in their cereals that are marketed to [...]

Having young children has made me realize just how confusing the English language can be. My 3 year old likes it when we make words together with letter magnets and she also likes to name things that start with a certain letter. She picked up the ‘k’ magnet and said “K is for cat”. Why [...]

I am very happy to have both my girls potty trained but some days I think it would be easier to change diapers than have them use up a whole roll of toilet paper in one day. JJ came up with this idea to just rip off little squares for them and keep the roll [...]

Last night JJ and I taught our 2 year old and 3 year old how to floss. Sariah who is 3 thought Dentex’s kids floss were pretty cool. She did a really good flossing her teeth and eventually she let me help her get to the teeth she wasn’t able to. Rebekah had fun playing [...]