Tips to Help Your Child “Get Back to Happy” on Sick Days

Tweet With a family our size, this time of year can be plagued with head colds, flu bugs, and nasty coughs. Late night wakings, cranky mornings, and nap-less afternoons are just par for the course. Sometimes I wish we could all just be sick at the same time and get it over with, but that’s never the [...]

Vasectomy Gone Wrong

Tweet A quick note from Christine :: Much over-sharing is about to take place. I can assure you, however, that Ray has not embellished or exaggerated a single thing… after the first sentence. Now might actually be a good time to shoo your kiddos away. Oh, your hubby too, especially if he plans to have [...]

Mucinex kicked him out, but I know he’ll be back…

Tweet First of all, let me say thank you to my Twitter-bud – My4Sweeterbugs – for literally saving my sinuses and making my husband’s night! Thanks to her I was able to function beyond grunts and moans, help my hubby make dinner (sorta), get some work done, and even stay awake to watch a movie [...]

No More Migraines? (or “The Mirena is Evil”)

Tweet As most of you may recall I had been having pretty severe neck pain, and recurring headaches, for quite some time. Then back in May I began experiencing horrendous migraines; about one every week. Boy, were they awful. I was quite shaken by the debilitating pain accompanying each episode. There were days I clearly [...]

Headaches

Tweet The headaches that I’ve been getting truly are a pain in the neck! They start there anyway, and travel all the way up the back of my head and through my eyes… I had been getting headaches off and on for many months and didn’t think much of them. And then I got the [...]

Kissable

Tweet It’s the cooler weather that always makes me want to cuddle up with my hubby under a warm blanket, in front of the fire. But, it’s also the time of year for dry, chapped lips. Fortunately I have found some great remedies to make my unkissable lips kissable again. . Lip Lover, by Rachel [...]

When we get sick…

Tweet We ALL get sick. And SICK is what we get. Last week it was the stomach flu, this week a nasty head cold. Zach woke up the other night coughing and looking as if he would fall apart. last night my little Ben sounded as if he couldn’t breath, as he coughed and cried. [...]

Indoor Fountains Provide Many Benefits

Tweet There is a reason why the swooshing sounds that simulate the sounds of the womb, or sounds of nature have a calming effect on infants… Babies are bombarded with the sounds of the television, vehicles, and constant chatter. Even the sound of the refrigerator, or jeans in the dryer, are sounds that are foreign [...]

Am I A “Parasite”?

Tweet Yesterday I read an article in Cookie Magazine (August 2008) about Amanda Peet. Among many topics mentioned in the article she spoke out for vaccinations and expressed that she is concerned by the growing number of un-vaccinated children who are benefiting from the “shield” created by the inoculated. In the article she is quoted [...]