Welcome to Angelic Airlines! Are you ready to take to the skies? Children come join us this time on a wild adventure with Captain Frankie on Angelic Airlines as we travel across the world to learn about, visit and see Africa’s Big “5” Wildlife Animals. Captain Frankie is waiting for you to book your ticket,…
Seeking Help for Our Explosive Child
This is a follow-up post from Meet My Explosive Child post. It originally appeared in March 2015 and was updated in March 2017. Seeking help for our explosive child seems like it would be easy, right? I mean, if you’re an adult, you know how you are feeling and can call the appropriate doctor; your…
Family Travel plus FREE Printable Packing List
We like family travel. We don’t often get to do family travel for fun, but we somehow get to travel more often than not. Family travel involves quite a bit of prep to ensure the kids are entertained, we have everything we need, and nothing goes amiss. Of course, most of it falls on mom,…
17 Easy St. Patrick’s Day Craft Project for Kids
St. Patrick’s Day around our house is the day that the leprechaun comes and plays tricks on the kids. They run around trying to find him and even get a few pieces of his gold. But it’s also a day we like to sit down together and get as creative as possible to make some…
Breakfast Foods to Fuel Their Day
I am not a morning person so one can only imagine, I am not a breakfast person either! But, we all know the saying – “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” – and it’s true! For everyone, but most important, for the kids. Eating breakfast refuels your child’s tank and gives them…
My Top 10 Money Saving Tips
Money. It is my one most hated – and I mean passionately hated – things. You can’t live without it yet it typically makes people miserable. Let’s be real. I am always on the hunt for money saving tips. Before we started making changes in our home, I didn’t realize there were so many things…
Appropriate Movies for Sensitive Children
Last week, I watched Disney’s Tarzan with Addy and was kind of horrified at how scary and sad it actually is! I never noticed it before, but think about it. Tarzan’s parents are killed by the leopard (cheetah?), it comes out a few different times that make me jump (I hate being scared), and Clayton…
Meet my Explosive Child
Note: This post was originally written in 2014, with a minor edit in 2015. Meet Blake. He is my 6-year-old son. He is also my explosive child – a term I have given him that is not meant as a negative connotation or to demean him or to label him. He is an explosive child…
My Kid is Not Your Kid
Back when I started Experiencing Parenthood in January 2015; I wrote a post on the ‘pressures of when our child should…’. In summary, it was a post about parents pressuring other parents that their child should hit certain developmental milestones at certain times and when they don’t, parents get that judgemental ish that parents so…
Best Children’s Books {Birth to Age 1}
Reading is great for all ages – even if it’s just you reading to your little one. There are so many benefits to reading and there are so many great books to choose from! Here are a few of what we consider the best children’s books in the birth to age 1 category: Disclosure: This…
