Back-to-school season can bring can bring up all kinds of big emotions in our kids. Excitement, nervousness, anticipation, fear–they can all mix together to result in BIG emotions with BIG reactions. Back-to-school time is always an adjustment, but our kids…
Cape Cod and Nantucket 2022 Travel Recap
A couple of years ago I made my Instagram account public. I didn’t have a particular reason for doing so, but it very much felt like the right thing to do, so I did. I didn’t even know how social…
Mental Health Monday-Meal Planning, Back to School Edition
I know meal planning isn’t a typical mental health topic, but just hear me out on this. When I ask my adult clients or client parents about the most stressful part of the day, 9/10 times they say dinner time. …
Last Week of Summer
School starts in one week, which means we have a whole week of summer left to enjoy! We’re planning to live it up by having a pool day or two, baking lots of cookies, having a small back to school…
Books for Back to School
School starts in two weeks in our district. It feels completely surreal to be a bonafide mother of a kindergartener, because wasn’t she just born and wasn’t I just in my mid-twenties instead of mid-thirties? But it’s such a beautiful…
Two Years
I shared my first blog post two years ago yesterday. I’d wanted a new website for quite a while, but I never had time. Then COVID came and all of a sudden I did have time. My work as a…
