I vacuumed areas I embarrassingly admit I’ve only vacuumed once or twice in the 2 years we have lived in this house. If there was a sermon I really learned a lot from, I sometimes take an entire page and copy my notes down. A few years ago, my girlfriends and I got together for a 50’s themed party where we all dressed up and spent hours drinking wine and taking photos of us. Here I was with my two sweet boys peacefully adrift in dreamworld during their naps, laundry eagerly awaiting my hot iron touch and my scratch made spaghetti sauce simmering slowly on the stove top. A 3+ hour baseball game is a lot for a 2-year-old to sit through, so I am thankful for the Kid’s Zone!

Eating healthy, drinking enough water, getting up early, and keeping my house clean have been a constant struggle since becoming an adult. Daniel Tiger and his friends learn life lessons through little jingles that you WILL use on your kids. Llama Llama (Netflix)-We LOVE the Llama Llama books and lost our mindswhen we saw this was made into a TV show by Netflix.My daughter was waaaay more excited about cute stickers than anything else, so I always have them on hand. Turning off the personalized advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive.

It was a disaster and something I will definitely need to talk with my doctor about before we have another baby! Though being a housewife is more than enough of a job most of the time, I just want to say it is a great feeling to have choices. Potty training will require you as a parent to clean up a lot of messes, do a lot of laundry, and do a lot of sitting and waiting as your little one tries to go potty.To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. That being said, I know many women have it MUCH worse than I did and that medication may be necesssary I now consider myself an expert on dealing with morning sickness.

When finishing up my last year of teaching before becoming a stay-at-home mom, I dreamed that keeping a clean house would be so simple. It all came down to the fact that even if I didn’t have a toddler to entertain all day, all the free time in the world wouldn’t get my house clean until I CLEANED IT! I don’t need to rock her for an hour; she doesn’t need me to climb in her bed with her to fall asleep. Step Stool -Just as you are training your kiddo to use the potty, you are training them to wash their hands!What I found was that, in the end, the most valuable things I received were gifts from other moms who knew the best baby items! If her cry communicated emotional stress (like if she was teething or sick), we were there in a second to comfort her. Jk, it’s a sample I made taking out private prayer requests and taking time to make my handwriting look a lot better than it usually does!