Category: The First Year

  • Organizing Your Baby’s Wardrobe: Top 5 Tips to Read

    Organizing Your Baby’s Wardrobe: Top 5 Tips to Read

    Baby clothes appear tiny and harmless, but in no time can conquer and take over the entire closet space. Cute stuff you accumulate on shopping trips, loving gifts from enthusiastic friends and family, hand-me-downs, burp cloths, crib sheets and mattress pads will soon proliferate and colonize the nursery, leaving you with a gigantic and unmanageable…

  • 10 Ways to Help a New Mom Feel Special After She Had a Baby

    10 Ways to Help a New Mom Feel Special After She Had a Baby

    New moms are usually busy changing diapers, feeding a new baby, and trying to catch some zzz’s between bonding with her new baby. A new baby is a ton of work but it is worth it all. Those sleepless nights usually start in the hospital too. However, moms do need some special TLC as she…

  • Making Your House Kid-Safe: Top Tips to Read

    Making Your House Kid-Safe: Top Tips to Read

    Image via: Womensforum Supervising kids at all times is the best way to ensure they are safe, but you can’t always keep an eye on them, especially when you are a working parent. The best thing you can do to keep your fears at bay when your kids are at home without adult supervision is…

  • Introducing Gerber’s 3rd Foods® Lil Bits™ And Chew U

    Introducing Gerber’s 3rd Foods® Lil Bits™ And Chew U

    Disclosure: I participated in a blogger event to learn more about Gerber’s new line of food made especially for crawlers to help make the transition from purees to solids easier. All opinions in this post are 100% my own. I received compensation for today’s message.  I remember when all three of my children showed interest…

  • Five Ways You Can Prevent Your Kids from Nose-Picking

    Five Ways You Can Prevent Your Kids from Nose-Picking

    Nose-picking is disgusting! But the reality is that everyone’s done it some point during their childhood. And some adults still do it – the ones who haven’t been stopped of course. Here are five things that you should be doing if you want to stop your kids from trying to find gold up their noses.…

  • Buying Toys According to the Child’s Age

    Buying Toys According to the Child’s Age

    Choosing the right toy for your child can always be a tricky business. You have to choose something that your child will find interesting and that is safe and appropriate for his or her age. Many toys get looked over by a child simply because they were bought earlier than they were supposed to. Kids…

  • 5 Must Have Baby Accessories to Put On Your Baby Registery #Savvybaby

    5 Must Have Baby Accessories to Put On Your Baby Registery #Savvybaby

    I found out that my sister is expecting her first baby later this year. I am excited for her and can’t wait to hold her baby. I get baby fever from time to time but I am done with that chapter in my life. So when I found out, I was super happy for her…

  • Kicking the Habit: Maintaining a “No Cigarette” Policy After a Pregnancy

    Kicking the Habit: Maintaining a “No Cigarette” Policy After a Pregnancy

    Quitting smoking is a difficult journey and a great gift to both you and your child. You will be protecting your own health from cancer and heart disease, and your baby from potential second hand smoke risks, like asthma, allergies, ear infections, and pneumonia. Maintaining a “no cigarette” policy is hard, but one of the…

  • 10 Tips for Surviving a Military Deployment with Children #ConnectDuracell #Sponsored

    10 Tips for Surviving a Military Deployment with Children #ConnectDuracell #Sponsored

    Today, I wanted to share 10 tips on how to find ways to continually connect with each other during deployments. I was a former military spouse for several years and went through a deployment when my older son was a baby.

  • Engaging Home Activities for Building Self-Confidence in Kids

    Engaging Home Activities for Building Self-Confidence in Kids

    Parenting is more than changing diapers, buying clothes and feeding children. We teach them to talk, walk, how to play and how to interact with the world. Children don’t come with a one-size-fits-all personality. Some children are shy, some outgoing, some hyper and some naturally quiet. Creating a balance in your children to be self-confident…