There are three reasons I'm sitting down to gather my Favorite Posts of 2016 right now: I miss my blog! I haven't posted since November, and if I wait one more day, December will go by with no post! And then there goes the year. I want to continue the "favorite posts" … [Read more...]
The Pie Life by Samantha Ettus: Book Review
The Pie Life, a new book by work/life balance expert Samantha Ettus, is a shoulder to cry on for working parents everywhere. And I mean that to include work at home parents, and even parents who are not currently working to earn an income, but working solely to care for their … [Read more...]
It’s a Small Life After All
I'm going to try something for a minute. I'm going celebrate my little life. I'm going to be proud of trying to be a good mother. Trying to be a good housekeeper, a good wife, a good PTA president, a good member of my community, a good writer, a good daughter, sister, … [Read more...]
Being a Stay-at-Home Mom Is a Luxury…For Your Kids (A Dad’s Response)
Luxury? Ha! The working spouse is hardly putting his feet up, watching the game and drinking a beer with his buddies. Neither is the stay-at-home parent. The only luxury of having a stay-at-home-mom is felt by the children. And that's how it should be. One dad responds to the … [Read more...]
10 Years of Blogging – the Tin Anniversary
It’s an exclamation point at the end of an accidental 10-year epic. The closing of a volume in my life’s body of work. Today marks the tenth anniversary of the day I published my first post on houseofprince.blogspot.com, which became this site. I have since published over … [Read more...]