Forest Preserves Are Still Open and They’re Saving Our Sanity If you’ve been following awhile, you know I usually publish my Family Field Trip series posts on Friday, to give you ideas for the weekend ahead. But in COVID reality, the weekends just bleed into the weekdays and back again. Is a Saturday all that …
Work From Home With Kids: A Survival Guide
In the age of COVID-19, working parents have abruptly been thrust into a whole new world. Our schools and our daycares — our lifelines — are closed. We’re suddenly faced with the challenges of balancing work life and home life on an entirely new plane: one in which the two have collided in the most …
How I’m Talking to My Kids About COVID-19
When Easton barged into the house after school on Monday, I was in the kitchen, shaking a bottle of barbecue sauce. “Is that medicine for the coronavirus, Mom?” Granted, it was an oddly shaped bottle — but it was clearly time to have a conversation. Certainly everyone else is talking about coronavirus. My email is …
A Love Letter to You — and Me — on Valentine’s Weekend
Thanks to sweatyswag for gifting me the top that inspired this post OK, Valentine’s Day proper has come and gone, but love is still in the air. And yeah, I spent my Friday night eating a heart-shaped pizza at home with my husband AND my kids. A far cry from the candlelit, wine-and-roses romantic evening …