Kara
Picture Perfect or Not, Get in Front of the Camera
I have loved photography for as long as I can remember. To me, there is something magical about capturing and, if done well, evoking the mood or spirit of a moment, demonstrating in two-dimensional...
Get Out the Sweaters, Turn On Some Football, and Pass The Squash Soup: A...
The kids are back to school, and soon there will be a nip in the air. I personally love fall. Maybe it is because I always loved going back to school, or maybe because...
Independence Day: Free of the Breast Pump but Not Free of Emotion
With my daughter's first birthday and the 4th of July holiday near us, I am approaching another independence day of sorts; freedom from the breast pump, my mechanical sidekick for the past ten or...
All Signs Indicate That Kids Were Here :: A Fun Photography Project
If you have read some of my other posts, you know that I love taking photographs and that I especially love photographing and documenting my family, particularly my two girls. But…sometimes getting a fun...
Forget De-cluttering :: The ABC’s of Preventing Clutter Before It Starts
It seems like everywhere these days there are articles, blog posts, books, and Pinterest pages galore dedicated to de-cluttering, organizing, and purging. My co-FCMB contributor, Michelle, even recently wrote about her experience reading and implementing...
One, Dos, Trois :: Fun Foreign Language Books for Kids
Learning a foreign language is always on my “List” (you know those lists…things I would do if I had more time, things I wish I had done when I was younger, things I would have...
Have You Discovered Usborne Books Yet?
I have always loved books. After having kids, my passion for books and reading has become slightly more than an obsession. I have close to 200 books on my Amazon wish list and have...
Mother Earth Mama: Tips and Tricks for Reducing Your Impact
I have always been environmentally conscious and concerned with what my impact was doing to the larger world. As a kid, I collected aluminum cans (my hometown did not, and still has limited municipal...
Kids in the Kitchen: Make Dinner & Teach Math, Reading, and Science at the...
I have distinct memories of whenever my mother baked or cooked during my childhood always having a chair pulled over to the end of our kitchen counter. Atop my wooden perch, I was strategically...
There’s an App for…Your Toddler: Some Favorite Kid-Friendly Apps
Stuck on a long flight with a restless toddler?...There's an app for that!
Waiting in a never-ending line and you forgot to stock the diaper bag with the essentials (you know, paper, crayons, stickers)?...There's an app...