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3 Essential Baby Items You’ll Still NEED After the Baby Stage

3 Essential Baby Items You’ll Still NEED After the Baby Stage

As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission on qualifying sales. The baby stage is a wonderful time full of learning, playing and sleepless nights. It is also a time filled with STUFF. So much stuff. From diaper pails to bottle warmers (if you use them), onsies and on to bouncy, light up toys. […]

Posted February 27, 2019 by Milk and Hugs in Life as a Mom, Parenting / 0 Comments

On your first day back from Winter Break

On your first day back from Winter Break

While many areas across the country rejoined the school rush last week, here in our school district out in California, they go back today. And now, today, feeling the slight let down yet flush with guilty relief, I and thinking of them… and how I feel about their first day back after Winter Break. Before […]

Posted January 7, 2019 by Milk and Hugs in Parenting / 0 Comments

To Elf or not to Elf? The ultimate Christmas question….

To Elf or not to Elf? The ultimate Christmas question….

If you have followed this blog for any period of time, then you know that my family doesn’t ‘DO’ Santa. Oh, we play Santa, see Santa at functions, enjoy the movies, wear the hats, label certain gifts from Santa – but our girls are fully aware that Santa is NOT real… just a fun game […]

Posted December 7, 2018 by Milk and Hugs in Children, Fun Stuff, Parenting / 1 Comment

The Importance of Breaks

The Importance of Breaks

We all need breaks – breaks from work, breaks from stress and sometimes even small breaks from life. Those few precious moments can heal, galvanize and reenergize. Yet they all come to an end, don’t they? And then it is time to start again, find your place and rejoin what you escaped from. The value […]

Posted October 17, 2018 by Milk and Hugs in Breastfeeding, Life as a Mom / 0 Comments

Best Parenting Tweets for August 2018

Best Parenting Tweets for August 2018

Twitter makes me laugh, cry, yell and think… when it doesn’t enrage me or try to throw my phone across the room! I also am always on the hunt for #Parenting Tweets that make me giggle – here’s the best Parenting Tweets I found for the last week of August, 2018! Best Parenting Tweets I […]

Posted September 5, 2018 by Milk and Hugs in Parenting / 0 Comments

How to Travel with Pumped Breast Milk

How to Travel with Pumped Breast Milk

Traveling is a modern joy many of us enjoy. From trains to automobiles, boats to planes – most of us like to get out and see the world. That joy should not stop when you have children, even if you are breastfeeding and pumping. No matter how you get there, here are the regulations, rules […]

Posted August 9, 2018 by Milk and Hugs in Breastfeeding, General, Travel / 0 Comments

Learn to love the mother you are

Learn to love the mother you are

Do you love the mother you are? I know that there are many (far too many) days when I don’t. Some days I yell, get too loud, have my own temper tantrum or just generally lose the threads holding myself together. But you know what? It happens. I’m human. So are you. And so are […]

Posted July 12, 2018 by Milk and Hugs in Life as a Mom, Parenting / 0 Comments

Find yourself at The Happy Mom Conference.. and find a discount here

Find yourself at The Happy Mom Conference.. and find a discount here

I received an email the other day that I HAVE to share with you! The Happy Mom Conference, presented by Land of Mom, is coming to Los Angeles this coming weekend on Sunday, May 6th, 2018. The email I received? A DISCOUNT for my readers!!!!! Yes, honestly! A Happy Mom Conference Discount! I’m going to […]

Posted April 27, 2018 by Milk and Hugs in Life as a Mom, Parenting / 0 Comments