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I Hate My Life: A Parent’s Guide to Dealing with Anxiety During Covid-19

Leave a Comment / Health, How To Guides / By Donna Huff

I hate my life. So goes a seemingly new normal phrase. The past months have been alarming and traumatic for many people. These pandemic-caused events and situations have triggered stress and discomfort for different families. With so many changes happening in society, hundreds of parents and their kids have to deal with anxiety every day. …

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Make Time for Me: It’s Time to Put Yourself First

Leave a Comment / Health / By Andrea Hunt

Say it loud. “I will make time for ME.” At one point, we experienced moments where we wished we can have multiple copies of ourselves to bear several responsibilities at the same time. One to focus on being a great parent, another to focus on being an exceptional partner, and others to focus on being …

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How Much Alone Time is Normal in a Relationship?

Leave a Comment / Relationships / By Andrea Hunt

Having a significant other—a life partner—makes mundane domestic tasks enjoyable and romantic. You crave intimacy, presence, and attention. But intimacy does not only equate to closeness and familiarity, it also means bearing yourself to your partner. The real you, no holds barred. And in order to bear yourself completely, you also need some time alone …

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Valentine’s Day Gift Card Ideas

Leave a Comment / Entertainment & Activities, Seasons / By Andrea Hunt

While it’s optional to celebrate Valentine’s Day, many people take part in it—usually in the form of romantic dates, offering boxes of chocolates, and importantly, card-giving. Needless to say, you can easily purchase tons of greeting cards on store shelves. But to make the day more memorable, you can craft up DIY valentine cards for …

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What is Quality Time and Does Your Family Have Enough of It?

Leave a Comment / How To Guides, Relationships / By Andrea Hunt

What is quality time, especially in an age where technology and gadgets dominate our activities? With the ever-growing demands that life throws our way every day, it is understandable that we lose focus on some things while placing much attention on others. We see it happen every day. We see people losing contact with childhood …

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A Parent’s List of Gen Z High School Cliques

Leave a Comment / Parenting, Teens / By Andrea Hunt

Coming-of-age films in the late 90s and early 2000s often revolve around a list of high school cliques you can’t run away from. A jock falling for a nerd. An unknown trying to fit in with the campus queens. It has the perfect conflict material, and so these movies were absolute hits at that time …

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Valentine’s Day Gift Tag Printables

Leave a Comment / Lifestyle, Seasons / By Beth Thornton

Hugs, kisses, and gifts; hearts, hands, and lips—the common 14th of February feels. On this day, people celebrate all forms of love: romantic, friendship, familial, universal, and even self-love. For the lucky ones, they receive Valentine’s treats and gifts, with Valentine’s Day gift tag printables or Valentine’s cards that come along with them. Now that …

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The Best Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Mom

Leave a Comment / Lifestyle, Seasons / By Beth Thornton

February getting closer. Storefronts are decorated with hearts with plenty of romantic quotes plastered everywhere. Aisles are lined with cupid symbol cut-outs that hang from the ceiling. All of a sudden, everywhere you look, couples are everywhere. Ah, Valentine’s day is coming soon. And as if preparing a gift for a significant other of years …

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The Best Valentine’s Day Quotes for Best Friends

Leave a Comment / Books & Reading, Seasons / By Beth Thornton

To celebrate valentine’s season, aside from offering pizza and chocolates, pals can also exchange valentine’s day quotes for best friends to each other. People saying that Valentine’s Day should only be celebrated by couples—young, old, married, or whatever fits the description—are dead wrong. This celebrated calendar date proves to be more than just an activity …

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The 80s Teen Movies We Moms Gushed About

Leave a Comment / Entertainment & Activities / By Andrea Hunt

We all have that one movie that changed our lives forever—the one we have seen countless times that we have memorized the dialogues and monologues of every character. While Netflix, one of the most popular video streaming services, only launched in the 1990s, we mothers had also gushed about nostalgic 80s teen movies. It seemed …

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