Celebrating Breastfeeding Despite My Traumatic Birth
August 1-7 is World Breastfeeding Week and we have a special extended line up for you! Our writers will share their triumphs and tears through their personal recollections of making...
Appreciating the Great Outdoors in Minnesota
by Liz Murray
After a long, tortuous winter, summer is finally upon us. And for Minnesotans, that means one thing: getting outside. June is National Great Outdoors month. I doubt any of us...
Just Let Them…
My kids are always thinking up ways to earn money. From selling used pencils on the front steps to strategizing what of their siblings’ things they could sell in a...
The Magic of the Multi-Family Vacation
I went to Mexico for a week with four kids under three. Sounds like the beginning of a dramatic, cautionary tale, right? It might seem like it at first, but...
Recipes to Survive a Day Stuck Inside
Some days, the thermometer never rises above -15 degrees. Or the torrential rain never takes a break. Or your toddler never stops refusing to put on weather-appropriate clothing. The only...
Cabin Fever Remedies
Dear Cabin Fever – I admit, you are real. You are not like Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, unicorns…or other mythical concepts like multiple kids napping at...
Family Fun at Mont du Lac Resort
by Karri Larson
The older my kids get, the more I look for opportunities to keep them off of their phones and social media. Its seems the lure of the phone is almost...
Indoor Fun for the Family
My husband has a long history of gag gifts. His specialty this year was a magnet I proudly display on the refrigerator that reads, “My favorite outdoor activity is going...
Mom Hair at its Worst
Stretch marks? Ok, I knew they were coming. Areas of stored “brown fat” my midwife told me would be impossible to exercise away until I was done nursing? Made my...
Ways to Gain in the New Year
During a new year, we are surrounded by constant messages to lose weight. Join a weight loss challenge, start an elimination diet, and workout until exhaustion. These are all common...
The Zen of Knitting
by Kate Kearns
I’ve always had a hard time defining my creativity. Am I artistic? No. Even my stick figures are shameful, and I can’t draw a circle to save my life. Am...
Cozy Style
It is Minnesota. It is the middle of winter. We basically live in the tundra. And today I got excited because there was not a negative sign in front of...
6 Keys To Hating Winter Less
Winter. It’s what this great state of Minnesota is famous for—the long, cold, snowy, stay-in-your-house-kind-of-frigid days of winter. When my daughter was about 3.5 years old, she walked out into...
