Sneaking in Exercise

Exercise is vital to each person’s good health. We need exercise to keep our blood running easily through our arteries and veins, to keep our weight at healthy levels and to help keep our stress levels down.
Exercise also aids in keeping cardiovascular disease, depression and other illnesses at bay. It’s hard for most people to [...]

Scheduling Time to De-Stress

Even Supermoms get stressed out. Kids are very demanding of a mother’s time and energy resources, and while children should be a high priority to every mom, stress sometimes results, and too much stress is harmful both mentally and physically.
Research has shown that constant, chronic stress can compromise your immune system, leaving you with weakened [...]

Deciding to Be a Stay at Home Mom

Everything in life, every decision you make, everything you do is a trade off. You get something and you give something. This is just the way life is. The decision to become a stay at home mom is easy for some, and difficult for others.
Because the decision is such a personal one, it can be [...]

Disconnect to Stay Sane

With the advent of email, instant messaging, cell phones, blackberries, etc., we’ve become accustomed to always being available to anyone and everyone at all times. In many ways this is great, but when it’s time for you to spend family time with your children, or time for you to spend time relaxing by yourself, being [...]

How to Relax When You Only Have a Few Minutes

If you can find even a few minutes each day for peace and quiet, you can use them to relax and rejuvenate yourself. Depending on your tastes, you can find several ways to spend as little as ten minutes relaxing when the kids are napping or just before they wake in the morning.
Here are some [...]

Home Spa Treatments

Even mommies need to feel pampered. And while it might be hard to schedule yourself for a day at the local spa, you can schedule yourself for an easy and affordable to create home spa treatment.

Arrange for grandma, grandpa or a trusted sitter to take the kids for a few hours. Or have your husband [...]

Don’t Let Dieting Make You Crazy

Those few extra pounds that came with baby, or just crept up over the years might be becoming bothersome. You may be dieting and working to get back into your pre-baby jeans, and that’s great, as long as dieting isn’t turning you into Momzilla!
There are several reasons why dieting can turn you into a less [...]

Creating Special Holiday Memories

Everybody loves the holidays. With friends and family around, food and fun and parties to go to, how could you not? Well, when you put a ton of pressure on yourself to outdo last holiday season, or what the neighbors are doing, you might put a damper on it for yourself.
The best thing you can [...]

Teaching Your Kids to Be Good People

Part of being a good parent is teaching your kids to be good people, and the best way to do this is be setting an example. When your kids see that you are doing the things that “good people” do, they will automatically catch on.
You don’t have to be Super Woman, or Mother Teresa, you [...]