From One Mom To Another

Yesterday I gave some practical tips on teething. Even if you have never had a teething infant you can imagine that it would be very painful. A sharp object pushing it’s way through the gums in your mouth, the gums swelling and sore to the touch. Worse than a splinter, and not even able to […]

If you have an infant and have not already experienced teething, you will soon enough. It is a painful time for both mom and baby because there is not a whole lot that can be done for them. Even the greatest of mothers can become frustrated and realize the helpless feeling in this situation.
Teething can […]

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price [is] far above rubies…Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband [also], and he praiseth her….The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil….Favour [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that] […]

I am thankful that children are more forgiving than most. After not being the “smartest mom” yesterday, I am thankful that at the end of the day my kids still say, “I love you mommy.” I am thankful for my children just being in my life; they are my reminders to not take life so […]

I got this great idea from BeBestages, which is an adorable moms site. Finally a way to use all of those broken crayon pieces! Using your broken crayons you can create these round crayons pictured. I find that they are really great for small toddlers, like my 20 month old, because they can grip them […]

Fifty years ago America was the world’s standard for learning and high achievement. We were on the cutting edge in invention, and business. I think that the standards of learning in the education system plummeted somewhere along the line, and now Japan and other countries are light years ahead of us. All other countries learn […]

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
-Goethe
When I was a teen there was a girl who always stunk, always dressed badly, and was a social outcast. I remember my dad said “treat her as if she were […]

I was reading on Nola’s blog and she wrote the ten things she loved about being a mom. I chuckled through some of them, like #2 “Listening to them give each other advice.” This is so true. I take my five year old daughter, Emily, and my almost 5 year old niece, Sydney, to […]

Today I am introducing another 1smartmom, who will be a regular contributor to this site. I have known Kelly for about 15 years. She walked me through my first pregnancy, and is one of the greatest contributors to making me a better mom.
I feel Kelly offers a unique perspective on parenting as an adoptive […]

Being a mom is not my only purpose, but it is the greatest way to fulfill my purpose.

Interestingly enough I had written most of this post when I visited “Passion meets Purpose”, and she quoted another blog which caught my attention…
“Once you discover and embrace your life purpose, are […]