Parenting

If you’re here, you probably love Halloween as much as I do. You may already be well-known for your ghoulish galas or maybe this is your first time hosting a boo bash. I’ve compiled my best ideas for hosting...

My family is 100% Disney Cruise Line fans. We recently had the opportunity to sail on the line’s newest ship, the Disney Wish. Because it’s the first new ship in 10 years, there were bound to be some changes....

Every fall Friday night for all of my high school career, my parents knew where I was: at a football game. No, I was not a female football player—I was a drill team member. But I felt every bit...

Hey moms! With the kiddos headed back to school we thought what better reason do we need than to get together {sans kids!} for an evening of fun and pampering with other women in our community? Our sip and...

I love hosting a crowd, but let’s be honest, sometimes it can be a lot of work! In my head, I envision every birthday party and seasonal event as picture perfect. I want themed, I want unique, I want...

Stubborn, difficult, spirited, limit tester, intense, inquisitive, in charge, passionate, the boss. All of these are words used to describe a strong-willed child. While all children have these tendencies or “moments”, a strong-willed child exhibits these characteristics more often than...

Five years ago, Houston faced a hurricane that devastated us as a community. Hurricane Harvey made landfall late on August 25, 2017, and simply stayed over our city. For almost five days, the storm poured almost 50 inches of rain...

*Updated August 17, 2022 A few weeks ago on my stupid little walk for my stupid mental health, I was dressed in typical workout gear: Black leggings and a matching jacket. This day was different though. The laundry needed to...

When my husband and I sent our son to a month of summer school this year, we anticipated that there would be an adjustment period. It was a new classroom, with older classmates and new teachers. But, no big...

Not a lot of things come naturally to me as a mother. But to be fair, I was never really good at puzzles.  I’m great at other things, {perfecting the olive juice to Vermouth ratio in a martini is an...