Tweet One thing we can NOT get enough of at Scottsdale Moms Blog, is family photos! Sarah and I (Joy) were honored to work with Sally Manlove Photography a couple weeks ago! We could not be happier with the way that these photos turned out! Here’s Sarah’s family: Doesn’t her daughter make you smile? And here [...]
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Unrealistic Expectations
Tweet I once heard a wise teacher say in passing that parents often have ridiculous expectations on their children. He said he sees them yelling at their kids TO SHARE. But they have never taken the time to teach them to share. Here is a toy. You play with it, and I will watch you [...]
7 Things I’ve Learned {the hard way} About Scorpions
Tweet It was March 2010, about three months after we had moved into our current home. I was seven months pregnant with baby number two. Our nearly-two-year-old had woken early on a Saturday morning and I’d gotten up with her to let my husband snooze a little longer. Thinking he would sleep in for another [...]
Mommy Quick Tips | Surviving Well Checks with Multiple Kids in Tow
Tweet Taking multiple kids to a well check. I’m pretty sure that this is one of my most disliked mommy must-do’s. Really, I try to avoid it like the plague. Usually, I find other places for my kids to go or schedule them when my hubby is home and I can take the child that [...]
Achoo! Spring Allergies: What we can do for our kids
Tweet Hey moms! I recently did an interview with allergist Dr. Laine Keahey from Arizona Allergy Associates (also a local Scottsdale mom of two). Dr. Keahey said this is “one of the worst allergy seasons I’ve ever seen”. Tips to help this allergy season: .1.) Shower the kids after they are outside, or at least before they climb [...]
3 New Ways to Hunt Easter Eggs
Tweet I did a little trial egg hunt with my almost three-year-old last week and realized that she doesn’t quite get it. She was all for me hiding the eggs, but then the “go and find them” part was a little lost on her. I started looking around and I found some great ideas to [...]
GIVEAWAY | Sally Manlove Photography
Tweet What’s that you say? Your kids are growing up too fast? You just want them to hold still for a minute so you can drink in their cuteness before they go off to college? I know it! These years are flying by so quickly! That’s why I LOVE having family portraits taken here and [...]
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Making It Stick: Giving Back as a Family
Tweet If you’re like me, your ultimate goal in parenting is to raise a little person into a big person who not only spends as little time as possible in prison or on the sofa of a shrink, but one who lives and loves with purpose and strength of character. We live in a city [...]
Lessons from my day at the “Parada del Sol!”
Tweet My husband was out of town this weekend. I was on my own, with two small children to care for and entertain. When I find myself with days like this, my temptation is to turn it into a “work weekend.” I run a bunch of errands, take a big bite out of my to-do [...]
Holiday Birthdays: Do You Have One? Does Your Child?
Tweet This weekend we went to the Train Park. Everywhere we looked, birthday parties and their accoutrement – balloons, streamers, piñatas and frosting-smeared table coverings – added a festive feel to an already spectacularly gorgeous February day. I couldn’t help but feel a familiar flutter of anticipation as I noticed that nearly every family had [...]
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