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Potty Training Tips and Tricks

Potty Training Tips and Tricks

I used to think that potty training was the worst parenting job on the planet.  Now, I’m willing to concede that it’s up there with the worst, but given a few key potty training tips and tricks, it’s not THAT bad.  And it IS totally achievable with very few tears.  Both yours and your kid’s. Potty Training Failures They say…

How to Be Present for Your Kids

How to Be Present for Your Kids

I’m not sure how or when it happened, but at some point our then young sons started asking for either Sarah or I to be their “bath listener.” At the time I thought it was the cutest thing I’d ever heard but as I sat listening to Penny describe in detail how mommy horsey and baby horsey were eating all…

Me Oh My, Cherry Pie!

Me Oh My, Cherry Pie!

Cherry Pie is the BEST. Pie is our favorite dessert.  Hands down.  And cherry pie happens to be Dave’s second favorite (top favorite is key lime, but I – Sarah – am not a huge fan so I tend not to make it very often).  And on top of pie being our favorite dessert, perfecting a pie crust was a…

The middle child.

The middle child.

How birth order affects your parenting. Have you ever taken a birth order quiz?  Like this one on Buzzfeed?  Funnily enough, it told me I was an only child (I have a younger sister).  This one pegged me spot on as a first born. [ Who doesn’t love a good online quiz?!]   I would say I am a fairly…

By way of introductions.

By way of introductions.

Hi. I’m new here.  So are you, it seems, and introductions are in order.  I’m Sarah.  I am and have been a lot of things in my thirty odd years on this planet.  The impetus for this blog in particular, though, is my being a mother to a daughter.  The youngest of my three children, Penny, arrived about a year…