Mommy Mondays

Mommy Mondays: Birthday Reflections on Being a Mommy

November 5, 2012
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This week is a big week in our home as we celebrate not one, but TWO kiddo birthdays! It’s been a pretty incredible 6.5 years and I feel awestruck at the amazing journey these two souls have taken me on. As I sit and reflect on what these past mommy years have been like for […]

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Mommy Mondays: The Organized Parent

October 29, 2012
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I think one of the things that surprised me most about being a parent is the amount of organization that’s involved. Keeping in mind that I’m not yet to the carpool-sports games-and school activities stage of parenthood, there’s an amazing amount of planning, coordination, and management involved when raising kids. Here are just some of […]

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Mommy Mondays: Grant Me Patience

October 23, 2012
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I love to do things with my kids. Well…most things. Do you know the one thing I can’t stand to do with them? The one thing that I try to avoid whenever possible? Grocery shopping. I am generally a patient person, but when it comes to going to the grocery store with my kids, my […]

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Mommy Mondays: Traveling with Kids

October 8, 2012
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This week the American Music Therapy Association is hosting it’s conference in St. Charles IL. In a field where the majority of professionals are women, it may not come as a surprise that there is a fairly continual stream of babies being born. Which also means that at any given conference, you’ll generally run into […]

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Mommy Mondays: Music with My Kids (Part II)

October 1, 2012
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In the last Mommy Monday post, inspired by a question from a Maven reader, I described some of the ways we did—and did not—engage our kids in early music experiences. What about after the early years are over? My husband and I made a decision early on that our kids would take piano lessons. They […]

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Music with My Kids (Part I)

September 17, 2012
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I received a great question from a Maven reader earlier this week: I would love (and appreciate) a future blog post about a musician parent helping your child to learn music. Do you have someone else teach your child piano? How do you combat power struggles? At what age did you have your kiddo start […]

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Mommy Mondays: The Secret Weapon that Makes My Life Work

September 10, 2012
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You want to know my primary secret weapon? The one big thing that allows me to be a working mommy? My husband. He rocks. Seriously—one of the biggest reasons why I can do what I do is that I have a husband who is supportive of my dream and who is involved with the kids. […]

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Mommy Mondays: The Art of the Morning Routine

September 4, 2012
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There is an art to the morning routine. The ability to get two adults and two children exercised, fed, dressed, cleaned up, lunches packed, beds made, teethed brushed, hair done, and out the door in a matter of hours. Over the past couple of weeks—following our big back-to-school-and-starting-kindergarten transition—we have our morning routine down pat. […]

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Mommy Mondays: The Best Lunch Ever

August 27, 2012
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We have successfully navigated our first week with everyone back in school. Yippee! And I learned something pretty early on in the week, something that surprised me, something I wasn’t quite expecting. I hardly get to see my daughter. I see her for about 30 minutes in the morning, but it’s not quality time, it’s […]

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