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25 Creative Ideas to Add to Your Summer Bucket List!
There are tons and tons of summer bucket lists out there, but here are 25 creative ideas you might not have thought of to add to your list before!

Green Bay Area Mom
May 222 min read


Device-Free Summer
The reality is that devices have become a problem for all of us. I have witnessed this often first-hand, as a middle school teacher in a school where each student has an iPad.

Green Bay Area Mom
May 193 min read


Family-Friendly Ideas For Visiting Door County This Summer
Sometimes, the perfect getaway is right in your own backyard. With dozens of parks and beaches, Door County is the perfect destination for a family visit this upcoming summer.

Green Bay Area Mom
May 123 min read


Teacher Gifts: What Teachers Really Want At The End Of The School Year
A quick Pinterest search will show you how to spend hours of your time making personalized teacher gift tags to attach to buckets of candy or recreate your child’s classroom photo using stick figures and colorful buttons. But to find out what teachers really want, I went straight to the source:

Green Bay Area Mom
Apr 302 min read


Ridiculous Things We Say to Mothers
Whether you have two or seven, anything more than one child makes all the sound parenting advice from well-meaning grocery store ladies seem downright comical.

Green Bay Area Mom
Apr 203 min read


A Mom’s Guide to Understanding Substance Use in the Family
This post is sponsored by the experts at Prevea Health You know that feeling as a mom, when something feels off? When your gut tells you something isn’t quite right, even if you can’t put your finger on it? Mom’s often notice things first. It’s that “mom radar.” Whether it’s a teenager who seems more withdrawn lately, a partner who’s been leaning on alcohol more than usual or maybe even your own relationship with substances, this is a space I talk about with people on a regul

Green Bay Area Mom
Apr 163 min read


Spring Cleaning Tips: It's Just Stuff
To list our house as a vacation rental, we had to empty closets and cabinets of 16+ years of clothes, toys, games, and other accumulated possessions. I assumed that getting rid of our personal things would be emotionally difficult for this sappy mom, but decluttering actually got easier as we went along.

Green Bay Area Mom
Apr 133 min read


40+ Easter Basket filler ideas for teens and tweens
<p>Once our children start to transition away from younger elementary interests, it seems that finding items to fill their baskets can become a bit more of a challenge. As I prepared […]</p>

Green Bay Area Mom
Apr 22 min read


Dinosaur Tour in Green Bay!
Are your littles wild about dinosaurs? Or at least like talking about them? I had a feeling. Did you know there are no fewer than SIX dinosaurs available for public viewing in Green Bay?

Green Bay Area Mom
Feb 214 min read


Appropriate Chores for a Preschooler
As she rattled off a plethora of tasks her daughters can carry out, I realized that I could really be doing so much more on the topic of appropriate chores for a preschooler.

Green Bay Area Mom
Feb 183 min read
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