Spring Into The Light Book List
The daylight hours are getting longer, and spring is finally in the air. Why not celebrate all of this new found “light” with some humor? Here are some books that will tickle your funny bone. Perfect...
View ArticleBooks For Your Bedside Table through the Tween and Teen Years
In a little over a month, my fourth kiddo will cross over to the dark place known as Tweendom. This means for those of you keeping score at home that I will soon have a house bursting at the seams with...
View ArticleStop Locking Their Childhoods in a Closet
The good ol’ summertime is a fantastic time to slow it down and really smell the roses. So to speak. Erin: It’s also a perfect time to have it smack you in the face just how fast your babies are...
View ArticleHold Onto Summer Book List
Pumpkins may be pushing pool noodles from the shelves, but there is still summer to be had! The sun is still blazing, our legs are still sticking to the car seats, and more importantly, there are...
View ArticleThe PTA Can Be A Suburban Scourge
Have you gathered your pitchforks? Put them away! We’re pro volunteering, we swear! Volunteering makes this world a sweeter place to live and we strive to encourage giving hearts in our children. BUT...
View ArticlePostcards from the Edge: Books About Grief and Loss and Hope
Grief takes you places. These can be dark, hard, lonely places where a tsunami of emotions threatens to pull you under. When you are moving through that forbidding space, you may be looking for...
View ArticleRead This When You Have Time
Ten years ago, a kind but wily acquaintance was giving me the hard sell. He was leaving the neighborhood Cub Scout pack and moving on with his son. He was looking for a replacement/fresh meat/gullible...
View ArticleA Bounty of Books You’ll Want to Gobble Right Up
In the spirit of this season of gratitude, we admit that we are two very lucky girls. While we may occasionally want for smoother skin, deeper pockets, and a great blowout once in awhile, we know we...
View ArticleHow to Be Internet Famous in Six Degrees
How to Be Famous on the Internet in 6 Easy Steps: 1. Take off clothes. 2. Take picture. 3. Sprinkle generously with Photoshop. 4. Upload. 5. BOOM. 6. TMZ is calling you. Okay, just kidding. Seriously,...
View Article5 Books We Are Sweet On
While chocolates, hearts, and flowers may be the way to some girls’ hearts, books are definitely the way to ours. If books fill you with a warm, happy feeling too, here are five that you might want to...
View ArticleLast Blast of Summer Book List and Giveaway!!
It’s here, friends. The end of summer is upon us. We know. We’re sad too. But just because lazy days on the beach are ending, doesn’t mean the reading stops! In fact, just the opposite. No time like...
View ArticleReview of The Boy’s Body Book and The Girl’s Body Book
You know we’re big proponents of talking early and talking often with your children about all of the important things in life. And what can be more important to kids than their ever-changing bodies? So...
View ArticleYou Can RENT Textbooks!
We love to share tips here at the Sensible Moms that will make your life easier, such as a tailgating menu that doesn’t have any icky mayo to spoil or packing tips to get you on your way with your...
View Article15 Books to Read This Fall
Alas, summer is exiting stage right, but before we all cry a collective tear for the lazy, hazy days we are leaving behind, here is a happy thought: books are always in season. As other delights...
View ArticleLife Hacks for Managing Your Busy Family
Well, it’s official—autumn is here. Although fall is just as likely to punk us as shower us with pumpkin spice everything, we still love it or, at the very least, have to live through it. Sure,...
View ArticleThe Holidays are Coming! (And We’re Freaking Out!)
Do you feel like the holidays are one raging whitewater current sweeping you up in October and dumping you onto the barren shore just south of New Year’s Eve? Or is it north of? Either way . . . US...
View Article10 Books That Belong Under Your Christmas Tree
Looking for something perfect to put under the Christmas tree? Nothing warms our hearts and de-grinchifies us faster than a stack of great books. We crowd-sourced our in-real-life Sisterhood to put...
View ArticleEasy Hack to Use Any K-Cup in Your Keurig 2.0
This is a story of capitalism, big coffee, and the woman who would not be oppressed by their diabolical ways. Okay, maybe that is a bit dramatic. Anyway . . . I enjoy, crave, and need coffee, but I am...
View Article10 Books For the Sidelines
If your spring looks anything like ours, you would appreciate not just an extra blanket, some stay cool water bottles and another hour in your day, but something to fill those minutes you will...
View ArticleReader’s Guide to Parenting
Short of a personal trainer, an industrial strength leash, a never empty coffee pot, and an ironclad agreement with the relatives to babysit every weekend, you know what would make this whole parenting...
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