by Christina Renee | Children, Parenting
My daughter is due for her first baby next month. As a grandma, I am excited and I love when my girls call with parenting questions. Here are some things to do for getting ready for baby before the birth. In part 2 we’ll talk about the after. Take Care of...
by Christina Renee | Children, Family
Every sitcom you’ve ever seen has a stereotype as brothers and sisters as rivals, to be made fun of, laughed at or a scapegoat. I say this is untrue. Your children can be each others best friends. That’s not to say that they’ll always like each other...
by Christina Renee | Family, Thoughts
Send in the Clowns Last week the school sent home notices about clowns making threats to come into the high schools and “kidnap students or harm teachers.” They excused students who wouldn’t be at school that day. The next 2 nights at supper,...
by Christina Renee | Home, Simplify
You can hear a lot of talk about minimalism. Not keeping things unless they “spark joy”. I love the idea much better than my family but we are working on it more and more. We have taken several loads to Goodwill, or given to other family members....
by Christina Renee | Children, Parenting, Thoughts
Schedule It With 10 children it was hard to spend time alone with each one but it can be done. (Okay, we didn’t have all 10 at home at once, but 8 was common.) So what’s a mom to do to make each one feel special? Right now it’s pretty easy, we only...