My youngest daughter’s preschool teacher told me the other day that she noticed kids were getting louder.  As a parent of loud kids I can attest to this fact.  The teacher said that in day care kids learn at an early age to be loud in ord...

It always sounds like a good idea when you start talking about it- a family getaway.  You romanticize special moments with your children, sitting in front of a roaring fire, drinking hot cocoa and sharing laughter.  You don’t think about ...

For some reason when the temperatures get cold I start to feel suffocated by all of the stuff in my house.  While most people like to do “spring cleaning,” I am a winter cleaner.  I think it’s because I spend more time inside, ne...