I’m a teacher. An elementary school, special education teacher. So I’m used to giving unpleasant news to parents. I’m used to sending messages letting them know their child is “off-task” or “being defiant.” I’ve had to tell parents of young children – like, under 10 […]

Right now, it’s hard to imagine anyone being mean to my boys. They’re just babies, after all, and they’re adorable, funny, sweet, and friendly. They play well with other kids, so even bigger kids are nice to them. They don’t go to school or daycare. […]

If you follow my social media accounts or this blog closely, you might have notice that I went on something of a hiatus in the past few weeks. Normally, I update my blog once a week and post on my Instagram almost daily – but […]

The other day I asked my mother-in-law what I should blog about this week. She told me to write about the moment I started feeling confident as a mother – the moment I knew I “had it.” But I can’t write about that, because I […]

My name is Kayla, and I have a problem: like many new moms, I. Google. Everything. Every bump, sneeze, every weird thing they do, every not-so-weird thing they do – I google it all. And I realized recently that all my Google searches may be […]