I remember pretty vividly that my firstborn was much worst than my current toddler. — 6 Months Ago… Oh no, I thought. It’s coming. Am I ready? Is my husband ready? Within the next six months, I started seeing my toddler throw some crazy fits. Sometimes it was because he didn’t want to be carried because being on the loose was much more for him. Other times, it…

Over a week ago, I had written about starting over in order to organize my daily life. I literally went from chaos to more-or-less smooth sailing in that amount of time. I’ve figured out how to save myself from the chaos of ADHD. — I wrote a piece called Square One to talk about how I needed to reset myself in order to function with efficacy. Well, it worked. Mind you, I’m working between two apps to make it work, but it WORKS!!!

I used to think homeschooled kids were weird until I started homeschooling one of my kids. The world opened up for us, as did my eyes. — I originally wrote about this last year about why I started homeschooling and honestly at this point, he’s thriving! Prologue He started with his fears of not being “as smart as other kids” and running out of time to do his work. He didn’t test well and he was constantly crying…

Who knew that visiting my mother would be so… cringy. — Today was the day that we’d bring our older son back home. As helpful as he was to his grandmother this week, he was slipping in his schoolwork. Even my mother had agreed that he should go home. “Your grades are more important than helping me, papito,” she’d told him…

After living here for so long and reading about it in an online magazine, I figured it was time for me to write about it. — While I attended high school, all I’d ever heard about were the parties. While I was in college, I’d heard about the out-of-town college folks our locals would hook up with. As an adult, I started hearing something a bit different. It wasn’t the parties or the waterpark; it was…