My Interracial Marriage & Our Family Together
A wonderful gal from Twin Cities Family wrote a stellar piece called, I Married an Old Guy, and I loved the whole thing. My situation isn’t exactly the same, but...
Motherhood: The Most Empowering Part of My Life
by Liz Murray
When it comes to empowering women today, career ambitions often take center stage. Ask a young girl what she wants to be when she grows up, and we applaud answers...
Pediatric In-Home Speech & Language Therapy with Family Chatterbox
At the heart of Family Chatterbox are three core values: FUN, FUNCTIONAL and FAMILY. We believe that the best place for your child to develop their speech-language skills is in your home. Our...
Minnesoootan Baby Talk
As parents raising our children in Minnesota, we hear the funniest ‘baby talk’ when we walk into a room full of babies and toddlers. I am Minnesota born and raised,...
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...
The Story of the Death of My Old Life
The lady with the cards didn’t look like what I pictured a tarot card reader to look like but, perhaps, it was her middle-aged, motherly look that put me at...
Feel Better, Do Better: A Health and Wellness Pep-Talk for Moms {Part 4}
In this installment of my series, I want to talk about something that’s on the minds of most of the moms I talk to on a daily basis: weight loss....
If You Give Your Child a Banana
If you give your child a banana, chances are that someday soon they will ask for another. If your child is preferential to consistency, like mine, their daily banana will...
On Diversity: More Than Meets the Eye
by Erin Statz
My little family is racially diverse, and it starts with me. I’ve had people talk about my race since I was a child, but it’s always been a guessing game. ...
Ethical Consumerism & Products for Our Homes
by Laura Senske
I love getting great deals when I’m shopping. I once took my husband garage sale shopping and found the cutest, brand name jean jacket for my toddler for pennies. I...
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...
A Child’s Pace: Keeping Up while Slowing Down
What goes fast, but needs you to slow down? Yesterday I managed to get my children fed, dressed and out the door by 8:30am! This may not seem like a...
First Trimester Isolation
by Maureen Zhao
One of the most beautiful times of many women’s lives has turned out to be the most isolating time in mine. The first trimester of pregnancy. Pregnancy is supposed to...