Opinion

I love taking my kids to new cities, states and countries whenever I can. But on our recent track out from school, we just headed to the beach for a few days.

There’s something wonderful about changing to daylight saving time, even though I missed the extra hour of sleep and my kids stayed up long past their normal bedtime last week.

I remember being pregnant with Trevor and looking forward to taking beautiful photographs of my newborn and his toddler sister.

I recently read somewhere that people spend 14 days a year looking for lost items. But I am positive moms spend much more time than that searching for misplaced stuff.

When I was growing up, my mom would bring up important conversations while we were in the car. Her reasoning was that I was a captive audience and she couldn’t see me roll my eyes. While I h...

Last week, my calendar was full of playdates. But they weren’t for my children – they were my energetic rescue dog, Katie.

I recently ran into a good friend at the park and I asked her how her day was going. She started to give me the expected “great,” but then decided to be honest.

I pulled the blankets over my head and was thankful that the school delay last week gave me a few extra minutes to snooze. But I quickly realized that it was going to be impossible to sleep through...

I will admit that I have never been a huge fan of video games. But after going through a brief Atari-induced Frogger obsession in the 1980s and diligently creating a farm on Farmville a few years a...

My son’s friend walked in the room and as soon as he saw me, he got a huge grin on his face. The 11-year-old boy, who is taller than me and wears bigger shoes, ran across the room and engulfed...