How a Fence Saved My Marriage and Family
This is the story of how a fence strengthened my marriage and saved our family. Yes, a fence. This past spring, when the weather started getting nicer, my two and four-year...
I Don’t Know How to Parent in This World
{Photo Credit: Sarah Hudson Photography} The words were highlighted by a red border. I clicked on the article and fell down a rabbit hole, witness to the sick and twisted...
OMG! I never saw your text!
by Daci Platt
Does this sound like you? You’re sitting on the floor, drinking coffee and playing with your kid, and your phone dings. It’s your best friend, who you haven’t spoken to in...
Boutique Shopping Inside the Twin Cities’ Hot New Grocer
by Melissa
{Disclosure: Twin Cities Familys Blog has partnered with HyVee for this sponsored review. All opinions are those of the author.} Shopping. Can we just touch on this for a second?...
A Call to Love
by Kim
I was angry, more angry than I should have been. It had been a very long, frustrating winter day trapped inside with a teething toddler and a true-to-the-name threenager. There...
Mother Lover! Euphemisms For Moms
I love all kinds of moms. I love all kinds of people, really. Perhaps it’s a Midwest naiveté, or maybe it’s a skill, that I can identify the goodness in...
Healthy & Fun Toddler Breakfasts: 4 Ingredients or Less
by Kate Awsumb
Hello from the other side…of our toddler-breakfast rut. My one-year-old and I eat breakfast together every morning and are seriously stuck on the same boring oatmeal-banana-nut butter combo. Enter a couple...
Forget the Wine Glass
by Kim
I’m not a wine expert. I can’t tell you if a wine has hints of pear or raspberry or oak or chocolate. I can barely detect the difference between a...
A Mom’s Guide to Target’s Cartwheel App
by Lauren
As a Twin Cities mom, it is nearly impossible to not be a Target fanatic as there is a Target store about every five miles in the Twin Cities area. If...
10 Motherhoodisms
by Marielle
The day you become a mother, it’s like you’re automatically inducted into the “mom club.” Life as you know it ends, as you are immersed into the wonderful world of sleepless nights, chubby...
5 Non-Parenting Books for New Parents
by Daci Platt
Ah, summer: the time of year to buy a new book, throw it in your beach bag, and promptly forget about it while you follow your children around the beach, reapplying...
The Dark Days of Sleep Deprivation
by Amber Harder
I knew having kids would impact my sleep, so it was no shock to me when we brought our daughter home at 11 months old via International Adoption that we dealt...
11 Best Apps for Moms
Apps, how did we live without them?! Do you momma’s use apps to juggle your never ending to-do list? If not- think again. For all you busy moms out there that...
