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When you are one of four kids you basically know what your future holds: room sharing. I actually think room sharing has made my oldest two become super close. They truly love each other’s company – and toys. They both play with super heroes and Barbies and cars and My Little Ponies.
They’ve been sharing a [...]

Hi. My name is Janelle and I’m an Instagram-aholic. If you don’t know what Instagram is you might as well stop reading now. (I kid, I kid. From Wikipedia: It’s an online photo sharing and social networking service that enables users to take pictures, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety [...]

Remember my innovative playgroup I was telling you about? (See my earlier post about our Busy Bag exchange here.) Well, a few weeks ago, my friend Hailey (motivated by a cleanse food swap some of us had participated in) suggested our playgroup continue the idea.
It’s so simple and makes life so easy. Spend an hour [...]

Before we had kids my husband and I loved eating out. After, well, let’s just say sometimes a salad fork to the eye sounds more appealing.
But I want my kids to love it as much as I do and there is no better meal to start with then—brunch. Who doesn’t love brunch … it involves [...]

I am part of a pretty amazing playgroup in Canton. We meet weekly for play dates including trips to strawberry patches, picnics in the park, 3-D movie dates with giant tubs of popcorn and on and on. We help watch one another’s kids, exchange advice and concern about parenting dilemmas, and have monthly mom’s night [...]