I will be the first to admit that the Shyba Family is fully onboard on the fall + winter pumpkin flavored holiday train. We don’t go totally overboard, but as soon as we are able to pick out the sweet sugar pie pumpkins for roasting,...
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I feel like my day to day lineup of personal responsibilities is already fairly long. Adding in the layers of household duties and each child’s emotional and practical needs and we have our hours and minutes more than accounted for. When it comes to priorities,...
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This blog post is sponsored by BISSELL, but the opinions are all mine. I always seem to forget what it’s like having a puppy and a toddler at Christmastime. We only just put the new tree skirt under the tree and it was ruined within moments!...
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This blog post is written in partnership with and sponsored by Big Lots. Often I find that the anticipation of an event, a trip, or a major holiday is the most stressful part of the entire experience. As my family grows, this kind of anxiety also...
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Well, I never thought I'd be a wagon person. Until, that is, I was introduced to the Veer All-Terrain Cruiser. Demi and Evvie both love riding around in it, to soccer games, the beach, Christmas tree hunting, big-kid drop offs and even walking the dogs...
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This blog post is written in partnership with and sponsored by Big Lots. I am learning quickly what it means to be a parent of five children during the holidays. Celebrating, planning, preparing, and organizing everything from food to events to shopping is a very layered...
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As Californians who spent four winter seasons on the East Coast—still relatively recently—you would think that we’d be prepared for cold weather, or at least less whiney about it when the temps dip into the forties! The truth is, we are never prepared when it...
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This post is sponsored by Med-IQ and supported by an educational grant by Teva Pharmaceuticals. All opinions are my own. With Thanksgiving freshly in our past and December launching the final countdown of the quickly approaching festivities, we are in full preparation mode. I will be...
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Some days our busy life, full of many moving parts, feels like a well-oiled machine. Those days are few and far between, but they do happen and I make sure to take mental note of that wonderful feeling. Most days Justin and I are so...
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Right now, in this season of my life with five children including babies and toddlers, parenthood defines me. I suppose it has since I became a mother and likely will until they leave the nest, and it’s a state of being that I am absolutely...
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It took awhile for us to narrow our family motto, the single core value that not only brings us together as a family but also connects and bonds us to our pets, our peers and acquaintances and even strangers. There are a lot of things...
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This post was developed in collaboration with P&G as part of their Love Over Bias campaign. The last couple of summers, my daughter Zoe elected to sign up for a baseball camp organized by our local World Series champion major league baseball team. This particular...
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