My daughter has a best friend… she has four feet and a tail.
What little girl wouldn’t love to have a puppy for a best friend, right? However, this bond, their love for one another is something that is unreal. I would have never imagined that this tiny little ball of fluff would become my daughter’s best friend. Continue reading “My Daughter’s Best Friend”
The sweet round smiling face, the cheeky grin and the belly laughs fill the air. Rice cereal replaces the sweet sugary birthday cake, and big balloons are tired to the high chair!
Half birthdays are a big deal in our house! We celebrate with style and sugar.
Today I am going to stop and smell the dirty diapers. Yep, that’s right the dirty diapers!
The days when you’re exhausted from sleep training, you have baby spit up or your toddler’s boogers on your sleeve [black shirts are never a mom’s best friend], and the house … Well the house is still standing. You feel beaten, broken, and without hope. Take a moment to smell the dirty diapers. Continue reading “Stop and Smell the Dirty Diapers”
Survivor, The Real World, The Apprentice, Supernanny, Hells Kitchen, Naked and Afraid. Sometimes motherhood feels like a Reality Show marathon. And you pick-up the remote only to find out it’s the same on every channel. Some days all you can do is laugh. There are so many moments of motherhood where I have found myself – well just in that amazement of what just happened. How is this even possible? It’s almost just comedic how crazy motherhood can be some days. Cue the laugh track.
I am not a perfectionist! I am not the perfect mom! I am just trying to raise my kids not to be jerks.
I think as moms we have such a high standard for ourselves. We put such a weight on our shoulders that we need to be perfect. Our house needs to be spotless, our kids need to have the cutest clean clothes on, we need to do all of the cute crafts and art projects, we need to eat organic free range antibiotic free food, and we need to have them in a ton of activities. We have to do it all, with a smile on our face and most of the time on little or no sleep. However, we are not super woman.
Continue reading “I Am Not A Perfect Mom, I am Just Trying Not To Raise Jerks”
The swoosh of a child whizzing by your leg as they run circles around the room. You do a slow shuffle, kicking toys out of your way, as you make your way to the kitchen to start dinner. You realize in the moment, as you caught a glance of yourself in the mirror, that you still are still in your ‘uniform’ of yoga pants and a t-shirt and your messy bun has brought on a whole new meaning to ‘messy bun’.
You might feel frazzled, tired, like a complete failure. How can little people make you question who you are so much?
Ohhh the adventure of mom’s black shirt…
As a mom you learn so many things that first few years of motherhood! You except change in your household. Like the increased amount of black and blue marks on your legs from banging them on baby gates, the crunch of cereal under foot almost everywhere you walk, and the sticky hand rails going up the stairs. However there are some things, like your wardrobe , that you forget about. Continue reading “The Adventures of Mom’s Black Shirt”
They say it takes a village to raise kids. I never understood that until I had children of my own.
This mom thing is HARD… It’s easier if you have someone by your side that can support you through it. There is only so much a hubby can do. They can’t truly understand how it feels to feel like your always failing, mom guilt, chapped nipples, or hours of being home alone with a newborn screaming their head off.
Continue reading “Finding My Mom Friend”
I am not going to lie; I have a close relationship with our UPS man! Close enough where he knows when not to ring the bell because its nap time, he always does our deliveries in the morning, and he knows to knock so the dogs wont bark! We have a close working relationship. We have a standing date on the 27th of each month and countless dates in-between!
Hi all! My name is Annie, I am the face behind Laughter and Kisses. Laughter and Kisses is all about filling your home with love and laughing instead of crying on those hard parenting days! You know the days I am talking about! The days where your kids are driving you nuts, testing every limit, and you are two months behind on your laundry. I wanted a realist view of motherhood for woman, so they know they are not alone! I love my kids but some days they drive me nuts! It’s normal! Continue reading “Laughter and Kisses”
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