If you’ve been reading my blog, you know I have A LOT of kids. Four to be exact. Which most people seem to think is a lot. Parenting four kids can be exciting, exhausting, frustrating, fun…and expensive. When I transitioned to a stay-at-home mom we really started focusing on budgeting and finding ways to cut […]
From my experience, prior to the pandemic, there was almost this stigma against mothers who stay home with to raise their children. My blog is called, “Just a Mom and Her Bon Bons” because it seemed as though people believed stay at home moms (SAHM) sat around all day or were lazy. When my children […]
One of the things I dread most as a parent to young children is a road trip. I’m not sure if it’s the stress of loading everyone and everything into the car or just knowing someone is going to puke, poop, or pee as soon as we leave the house. I have found that with […]
I want to start out by clarifying that there are different definitions and variations of “clean.” I learned very quickly during our first year of marriage that my husband and I had different ideas of what clean meant. This led to arguments when it was time to split up chores because one felt the other […]
When I had my twins, I hit the ground running at the start of parenthood. My son spent almost 2 weeks in the NICU with health issues, we lived almost an hour from the hospital, and with the rush of postpartum hormones, it just felt like the stress of life hit me full force. But […]
So, while writing this piece I actually laugh a little at the title, “Preparing for Twins.” Why? Because, as new parents, I’m not sure you can fully prepare for what you are about to experience when you have multiples. Yes, you can plan and prep, cook and organize, but in the end, those little ones […]
12 weeks. 12 solid weeks of no sleep for my husband and myself. And it was rough. We were blessed to start parenthood with a set of boy/girl twins. I’m a twin, so we knew there was a possibility of multiples when we started trying to conceive. We just didn’t understand what an adventure it […]
Have you ever had a Monday-ish Sunday? Meaning the day of the week is Sunday but you are struggling to get to your destination, kids aren’t cooperating, it’s not even 10 o’clock and everything that could go wrong is going wrong– so it has the Monday vibes. Easy like Sunday morning, right? Wrong. As an […]