I can’t be still. Don’t get me wrong—I want to be still. I want to relax. But every time I sit down, I think of 796 other things I could be doing and even if I am too exhausted to get up, I pull out my phone or my iPad and try to squeeze something […]
I have a bruise on the top of my forehead today where a child dropped a back-scratcher-doubling-as-a-baton on my face while I was lying down. There’s a scar on my lower abdomen that basically looks like the pale, wrinkled version of the “meh” emoji. And I can’t even remember the last time I wasn’t tired. […]
As I brainstormed ideas for what to share with you, my fellow in-the-trenches moms, an idea popped into my head. It was more like a potential title, really: 3 Things I’ve Learned in Our First Weeks of Homeschooling. So I went with it. And there I sat, staring at the white screen. I finally wrote the […]
People worldwide were shaken when the horrific murder of George Floyd was shared across social media and across TV networks. It has opened up a conversation that has been going on quietly and mostly behind the scenes for generations. And it has left a lot of White people asking, “What do I do now?” And […]
Let’s face it: the absence of routines and predictability is the epitome of scary for kids {and if we’re really being honest, all of us}. Since our last Book Club book was all about parenting secure kids, I’ve had these ideas on my mind coming into this time of “hunker down”. In their book The Power […]
In 2019, the Houston Moms Blog book club read Michelle Obama’s Becoming Liani Tamani’s Calling My Name Fredrik Backman’s Bear Town Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Such great books! I had a wonderful time reading and discussing these amazing reads […]
Distinguished writer Ta-Nehisi Coates poignantly points out the inherent problems with dehumanizing people. And while he was specifically talking about the danger in verbally removing the humanity of enslaved and disadvantaged people, I think we often do the same thing to some degree with our heroes. We put them on pedestals and begin to believe […]
If you notice that our trunk is filled with camping chairs, you might understand. We’ve just survived our first season of school sports. My twins just played their first seasons of football and ran on their school’s cross country team. It was chaotic. And exhausting. And my three-year-old started calling our minivan “home.” But there […]
I’ve already admitted my undying affliction–I mean, affection–for children’s books. So even though I did read a handful of books for grown-ups this summer, I read quite a few children’s books. Want to know some of the latest and greatest in kidlit? You can’t go wrong with any of these:: Middle Grade Novels Squint […]
Summer survival with kids is difficult, but we’ve got a secret solution that just might make these long days a little easier {and fun!} Don’t you hate it when you start June full of good intentions and energy, but suddenly it’s August and you are riddled with guilt for all the things you never got […]
