A couple year's ago, I made a New Year's resolution to be more reliable. I had been finding myself in the awkward position of having...

What NOT to Say to a New Mom

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Sometimes in life, you come across those people that just have no filter. You know, the ones who suffer from "diarrhea of the mouth"...
With the holidays quickly approaching, my newsfeed has been riddled with article after article about why people are going to let go of the...
There’s been this thing floating around Facebook recently – something like, ‘Lies Our Parents Used to Tell Us’. And man, seeing this totally hit...
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I love our neighborhood.  The families are friendly and the yards are always full of children playing football, jumping on the trampoline or running...
Winter is arriving in Indiana, and my four-year-old daughter and I are already starting to feel a little stir-crazy at the thought of not...
I come from a fairly large family. With more cousins than I can count on my fingers and toes, family and connectivity is something...
I've read at least three blogs today about telling kids the truth about Santa. Apparently one of the latest parenting trends is to boycott...
We're coming up on the holidays, and you know what that means! I'm not talking about packed malls, decadent food, and the sweet crooning...
I'm a big fan of mottos and quotes. For example, my personal happiness motto comes from one of my favorite writers, Kelly Corrigan, who...
The holidays are coming – time for joy, time for cheer, jingle bells and pretty lights and cookies and presents and… Bah Humbug! Ok,...
When I showed my four year old this photo of me and my mom, I asked him who the baby was. His response, albeit...
Despite the fact that this fall has presented warmer temperatures than normal, winter is almost upon us here in Indianapolis, and Hoosier country is...

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See Circle City: Creek Stomping Around Indianapolis

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Growing up in the late 1980s and 1990s, I loved playing in my local park's creek. That kind of unstructured play is something I...