(Editor’s note: please welcome Melissa Cameron, writing about photography, kids, and a little blackmail I know I’m planning to perpetrate when the boys get older. Thanks Melissa!) Often times, kids don’t want to be photographed. They think it’s dull and useless to take them either by themselves or with people. For us adults, photos are [...]

One of the great companies I met at BlissDom11 was MamaMemoirs. This is an online pregnancy journal that is easy to use. I know I struggled with keeping all the details of my pregnancies organized. Being that I’m not an avid scrapbooker, many of those details exist only in my very foggy memory. If I’d [...]

At about 11:30 last night, I went to check on the older boys and they were (surprisingly) still awake. Turns out they were trying to stay up until midnight so they could see the beginning of the new day. You see, today is their 11th birthday. Eleven years ago right now I was in the [...]

Up next in the Family Builders series: Bowling. This is a sport that gets you up and moving a bit without excessive strain. Cheering each player on while encouraging them to improve their game helps with sportsmanship and strengthens children’s sense of the family being part of a team. Bowling is an activity that all [...]

I grew up in a rural setting, just on the edge of suburbia. My dad was (and still is) a professor at the local junior college, and Mom stayed home with us kids. I am the oldest of 3 children-my brother is two years younger than me and my sister is six years younger. While [...]