Who’s More Mature – Me or the 3-Year-Old? by Melissa Swedoski


My first born, the love and light of my life, the reason for so many tears and so much laughter, is turning 3 next week. We're going to have a little family party this weekend, and she's going to get to enjoy the bounce house she's been asking for since ...

Adventures in Attachment Parenting: Our Pumpkin Party by Allison Silver


The past few weeks have been action packed and a bit crazy in the Silver household. Two weeks ago we got our first real cold! Since I haven't taught school in almost two years we haven't been sick in two years. But as soon as we started our parent-tot class ...

“Our” Birthday! – by Cara Potapshyn Meyers


Wow! He finally “got it!” It only took him nine years! Lol! Today, Monday, August 6, is my son’s ninth birthday! Mine is tomorrow. Over the years, since his birth, I have always considered our birthdays one and the same. Although I always made sure that my son’s birthday was ...

Ode to My Mother by Margaret Hart


My mother is a courageous and resilient woman. Characteristics she inherited from her mother, who, as a young war widow of a captain in the merchant marine, raised my mother and her sister with lots of love and steely determination. My mother never knew her father, who was killed when ...