I was thrilled to be back on Global’s The Morning Show today with some tips for parents as we approach the end of the school year! Hosts Carolyn MacKenzie and Jeff McArthur had some great questions for me, like: What’s one question you should ask your child’s teacher before the year ends? Do teachers expect […] Read more…
The 5 Love Languages of Children Parenting Challenge
A few weeks ago I read the wonderful book The 5 Love Languages of Children: The Secret to Loving Children Effectively by Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell. It was so inspiring to me that I decided to start a 5 week parenting challenge on Facebook, where participants made an effort to “speak” a new language […] Read more…
Our Shoes, Our Selves: 40 Women, 40 Stories, 40 Pairs of Shoes
*Note: this book was so inspiring that I will be sharing my very own shoe story here on the blog soon!* Our Shoes, Our Selves by Bridget Moynahan and Amanda Benchley is a beautifully photographed (shout out to Melanie Dunea), coffee-table style book, but you don’t want to skim over the text because it’s just […] Read more…
Baking with the Hamilton Beach Hand/Stand Mixer
*Note: I’m giving away one of these right now on Instagram! Click here!* Would you be surprised to learn that I have never owned a stand mixer? A hand mixer, yes, but I have never baked enough to warrant purchasing the stand variety, especially when I assumed that they were all super expensive. I was […] Read more…
Mindfulness for Moms with Natalie Matias
Of course you’ve heard about mindfulness and that it can benefit busy moms like all of us…but how do we go about achieving it? For some expert insights, I asked Natalie Matias to answer a few questions! First, tell me about the work that you do, both for individuals and in workplaces? (Now that you’re […] Read more…
Book Reco: The Valedictorian of Being Dead by Heather B. Armstrong
Heather B. Armstrong rose to blogger fame way back before This Mom Loves even existed (she was actually fired from her day job in 2002 for writing about her workplace) and subsequently became the epitome of the “Mommy Blogger”. (I hate that term. Please don’t call me that.) In her new book, The Valedictorian of […] Read more…