Mom Life

When I began feeding my son food for the first time, we started with purees. Then I heard about Baby-Led Weaning (BLW), and for my second, I'll be jumping right into BLW and skipping the purees. If you are...

Headfirst Summer Camps was founded in 1997 with a single pitching lesson by D.C. native, Brendan Sullivan, and quickly grew into a popular area baseball camp. Over the past 20+ years, they have branched out into other sports and day...

As St. Patty’s Day approaches it is an ideal time to look to the Irish for timeless wisdom as applicable to our family lives now as it was centuries ago. There’s a reason Irish proverbs have survived the test...

When we first did the math on raising twins in D.C., hiring a nanny instead of day care seemed to make sense. But I knew that that would also mean doing paperwork and paying taxes. With two new babies,...

Believe it or not you can learn some valuable lessons when you begin to declutter your home. Even though sorting through old books, shoes, clothing, and assorted odds and ends can seem like a painstaking process, below are 7...

Hi, my name is Moira and I live with... my husband our two children at my mother's house along with my grandmother Wonky policy people call us a four-generation household.   Let me stop you right there before you can even think,...

Like most parents, one of my dreams is to take our kids to Disney World. However, the thought of planning it causes me to panic a bit. A friend recently joked that planning a trip to Disney takes slightly...

I prayed for a little sister for my first 11 years of life and just before my 12th birthday, she finally arrived. Shortly after birth, Caroline started having seizures and stopped breathing several times, marking the beginning of a...

Does it feel like you're talking to your little ones all.day.long every day? Well, that's because you actually are! Statistically, we say about 2,100 words every hour to our young children. Every hour, guys. That's a whole lot of...

The ultimate goal for this Mom? I want my home to feel like an oasis, a place of thoughtful interior design, organization, and beauty. Basically, I want it to look like something out of a magazine all the time...

Toddlerhood is full of big and small transitions. There are always new, perhaps exiting or scary, transitions for toddlers to process. While there is no quick fix or magic wand to wave away the difficulty of these transitions, I've...

Confession: I hate winter. I dread autumn because I know it means winter is just around the corner. And once the festivities of December and New Years pass, it's only a matter of time before I sink into my...

DC rowhouses offer a living experience with character: beautiful brick, old-world details, turrets, and unique trim. They also offer a challenge for those of us living with small children: steep staircases, little storage, and so many hard surfaces. Six...

Matt Tavares has a simple way to introduce his career to a room full of children:  “I have a very cool job.” And he does. Tavares is an illustrator and author of children’s books. He has published 19 books and...