In early December, my husband and I did something brave: We took our toddler on a cruise — specifically, the inaugural sailing of the Disney Treasure. Don’t get me wrong, we made so many wonderful new memories, and the three of us still talk about the trip often. But man, taking a 3.5-year-old onto a...
The Good Brigade/DigitalVision/Getty Images I love New Year’s resolutions. I love the celebratory feeling of starting a new year, and I love the kiss goodbye (or curse, I don’t judge) we give to a year just finished. While I still maintain that, as a mom, my “real” New Year begins with the back-to-school season, there’s...
When I opened the door to two police officers responding to a 911 call from my stepson, I realized stepmom life would never look like I had imagined. I thought I understood the assignment when I married my husband, a father of four. I was ecstatic to form an "instant" family. After all, I’d played...
skynesher/E+/Getty Images It’s a tale as old as time: Some houses are naked houses and some houses just aren’t. The real trouble arises when the two parents living in the house don’t agree on having a naked house or not. This is the issue for one mom on Reddit, who turned to the site’s parenting...