It’s summertime and the family is out on the open road, cruising past exits, listening to your favorite tunes. Bliss! Until you hear: “Mama, I don’t feel well.” Not all children feel motion sickness. Our own lucky Nature Mom didn’t experience motion sickness as a child, and her own children don’t suffer from it either. I, … Read more
The early morning hours find our king-sized bed full of children. Sometimes they are snoozing. Sometimes I awake to the chatter of tiny voices. Quite often I am reminded of the elementary school song, “Ten bears in the bed, and the little one said…roll over…I’m crowded.” Yes, it is crowded, but I wouldn’t have it … Read more
Like so many holidays and community celebrations, Halloween becomes another opportunity for commerce. I see a lot of parents struggling to find the best way to instill in their children deeper meanings for holidays. Four inches of snow have definitively killed my pumpkin vines. These hearty pumpkins are my last harvest of the season. As we … Read more
If you’ve heard about co-sleeping but you just aren’t sure how to co-sleep with your baby, we have the basics for you. Once you know the basics, you’ll realize how easy it is to satisfy the needs of baby and parent. Among my fondest of parenting memories is sleeping with a baby on one side … Read more
One of the strongest senses evoking our emotional responses to holidays is smell. For this season in our house, pine and bay (evergreens) mix with spices like cinnamon and ginger. We have spiced pumpkin, spiced smoothies, spiced eggnog, spiced cookies, and spiced cider. There is a lot of cinnamon smell in our house. Every year … Read more