Tagged: parenting

Guest Blog: Work-Life Balance?

Shopping. It’s one of my great passions, and I’ve had the wonderful luck to be able to turn it not just into my hobby but my job, too. I started STEALS.com after I had my third child – it hit me as I was pulling out of the driveway when...

Guest Blog: The Honest Toddler’s Guide to Children’s Literature

We love books. Period. And we really, really love Honest Toddler. Books Books are wonderful entertainment, gum, and weapons. Many parents read whole stories and don’t skip pages, but I wouldn’t know anything about that. When you’re done texting, take a moment to learn about toddler favorites. The Giving Tree: LOVE Don’t...

Burning Questions

We spent this past Saturday morning running some errands as a family, and about three blocks from the last one, we heard a soft cough from the backseat… followed by a volcano of baby vomit spewing forth from our 21 month old son. We’ve been talking a lot here at weeSpring about...

Guest Blog: Nurturing a Nurturer

During the delivery of my first child, I apparently said to my husband, “You take care of me, so I can take care of our baby.”  I actually don’t recall saying these words, but my husband reminded me of that moment during one of our sleepless nights with our second...

Guest Blog: Expect the Unexpected

This morning, my 21-month-old drew on her wall with a crayon. A big blue crayon. Her scribble doesn’t match her adorable pink walls, or her pretty yellow bed. And it certainly doesn’t match my image of perfect motherhood, you know, the one I had the whole time I was pregnant,...

Guest Blog: We’re all in this together.

The cool thing about being a mom is that it’s one of the few jobs in the world that women have been doing, well, since the dawn of mankind. Sure — there are some new gadgets here and there, “new-ish” parenting philosophies, and certainly new challenges (hello, internet). But at...