Bedtime prayers with my four-year-old often go like this: “Thank you Lord for everything. Amen.” Sometimes he adds Super Mario or his family, but most of the time it’s a blanket statement that frustrates me a little bit. “He’s being lazy,” I think to myself.   But this particular four-year-old is anything but lazy, and he

Salt can be convincing. We can guarantee my four-year-old son will try a new food if we tell him “you can put salt on it!” He will reach for our salt jar, take a healthy pinch with his chubby fingers, and sprinkle it on his questionable vegetable. Most of the time, that magical dust of

I’ve never liked pumpkin spice lattes. I feel this a dangerous confession at the beginning of September when scents of pumpkin and cinnamon find you around every corner.   But, I’m a summer girl. I like going inside at 8:30pm after a full day of swimming, gardening, and catching lightning bugs with little sunburn on