Whatever happened to predictability The milkman, the paperboy, evening TV? You miss your old familiar friends Waiting just around the bend This old world’s confusing me You know these words right? I get chills just typing them out. I hear the “Ahhhhhh, ahhhhhhh, ahhhhhhh” and the drum line that leads into “Everywhere you look…” The Tanner…
Netflix
#CoupleGoals #NetflixandChill
So, they say that having a television in your bedroom halves your sex life. (Am I allowed to say that on a “family friendly” blog? I mean, you all know I have three kids, right? And that even though I go to church every few weeks, I’m no virgin… I don’t think acknowledging that I…
How Not To Sleep
I could use some sleep. My older two boys were wonderful sleepers until they both turned four-months-old at which point their sleeping patterns deteriorated until they were waking up every hour or two by the time they were nine-months-old. Logan’s sleep patterns were reversed. He started off as a terrible sleeper, and I was terrified that…
Spice Up a Seasoned Marriage with an At-Home Date
Remember back in the summer when we were on vacation and I was spending all my time with my family and my husband wasn’t working and we were in a really good place? September definitely brings everything back to reality, doesn’t it? Tonight I looked at the clock and realized that I had been managing…
When You Have a Hard Time Letting Go
My baby starts kindergarten tomorrow. Not the real baby, of course. The fact that he sometimes sleeps through the night is a big enough milestone for him. No. It is my first baby. Cameron. The five-year-old. (How the heck do I have a five-year-old?) (I mean. Actually how? I am twenty-nine years old. This reality…
When Kids Need Adventure
(This is a Netflix StreamTeam post but it mostly talks about adventure and the vacation we are currently on. Please continue reading.) I’m sitting in my Mother-in-law’s house writing this, at least a few days late. We’re in the middle of our family vacation and this is our first real taste of normal living with…
Entertainment Through Generations
We didn’t have cable when I was really young. I spent the first seven years of my life in what felt like a television waste land. By the time we moved from my first house when I was seven, all of my friends were watching shows that I wasn’t allowed to watch, but it didn’t really…
The Kids Are Alright
There are times when I feel utterly discouraged and I wonder if I have royally screwed up this responsibility of raising these kids I’ve been given. Maybe I’m too strict. Maybe I’m too angry and not patient enough. Maybe I don’t provide a loving enough place for my children to feel free to be themselves….
How Netflix is Still Changing the Way We Watch
I kind of love technology. I never thought I would be one of those people who would read tech blogs or desire to be an early adopter or that I even would be an early adopter of a few things. I often consider the greater sociological impacts of some of the tech innovations we witness….
How to Throw a Pokémon Birthday Party
Those in the know know that my eldest boy loves Pokémon. While it certainly isn’t my preference that he constantly wants to watch the show on Netflix or that he talks incessantly about different Pokémon, their abilities, and recent battles, I can’t help but enjoy watching him embrace this current passion. When Cameron’s fifth birthday rolled…
Who You Will Become
We registered Cameron for Kindergarten this past week. In all the big things and transitions of parenting, this is one of those monumental milestones. Or, at least it feels that way to my husband. He’s feeling a little overwhelmed by this whole new stage. Suddenly, we have a kid who isn’t so little anymore. We have someone who is…
