Bonita Springs – Spring is my favorite time to be a parent in Bonita Springs. I was sitting at the playground at Riverside Park last week, watching my daughter and her friends play. The evening sun played through the trees while the gentle breeze blew the Spanish moss. It was so nice to sit in [...]
Bonita Springs – It’s official – toys have overtaken our house. It began slowly, a stuffed bear on the couch, a couple of plastic toys in the shower. But now, on the three-year anniversary of moving into our home, the toy invasion is complete. When the Christmas tree moved out, the boxes of toys [...]
Bonita Springs – “Momma, I’m in love,” my five-year-old proclaimed one day after school. “The fairies and Jesus made me fall in love.” I tried to imagine what my mother would have said if I had lumped fairies and Jesus into a pair. But I smiled and said, “Oh yeah, who are you in love [...]
Bonita Springs – Last month I wrote about our new family member Colton, a dachshund mix that we adopted from the Humane Society. My daughter has wanted a dog forever and Colton seemed like the perfect little guy for us. After bringing him home, we soon began to realize that he didn’t really fit into [...]
Bonita Springs – We have a new baby at our house. Suddenly we are up five times a night, have tripled our laundry piles and don’t have a moment to ourselves. We tiptoe around, hoping not to wake him as he lies in a warm patch of sunlight. He is so sweet when he is [...]
Bonita Springs – Monday my daughter wants to learn how to the play the piano. Tuesday she wants to know how to read. Wednesday she wants to cook dinner. Thursday she wants to be in gymnastics… she is four and everyday is a new adventure. I love her endless curiosity, but sometimes it leaves me [...]
Bonita Springs – As I walked through our hallway last week, I noticed a strange array of visitors waiting to enter my 4-year-old daughter’s room. Lined up on little chairs sat, Winnie the Pooh, Rosalie the Cow, Tramp, Eeyore, dolls, frogs, teddy bears and several other stuffed friends. As I peeked into the room, my [...]
Bonita Springs –My daughter is obsessed with cooking. If I enter the kitchen she comes running yelling, “Mommy, I want to cook with you.” If I’m tired and just cooking something quickly, I try to explain that sometimes cooking simply consists of boiling water and dumping in pasta. But she is eager (and relentless) so [...]
Bonita Springs – When I met the man who would become my husband, he had the cutest little 3-year-old niece, Ellie. Her parents came to visit us in Florida (they lived in Tennessee where my husband is from). We took Ellie sailing, went to the beach and she and I loved each other instantly. I [...]
Bonita Springs — Water. We flock to it, especially here in Southwest Florida where we have beautiful beaches and ready access to swimming pools at our homes and in our communities. But for those with small children, water can be frightening. When we bought our house, with a pool, the first thing we did was [...]
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