February is National Children’s Dental Health Month!
Double Duty Twins (Plus One!)
by jmwalters718
4y ago
February is National Children’s Dental Health Month, and it’s reminding me of the first time Keith and I took the twins to the dentist. They were only about a year old, with gummy smiles and just a few teeth popping through. We took them to a pediatric dentist in Colorado Springs, and I remember being surprised and excited by how different the experience was from when I was growing up. I don’t think pediatric dentists even existed when I was a kid. I went to the same dentist my parents did, and I remember being in a sterile-looking room with scary tools and gross-tasting tooth products. For to ..read more
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Creating Good Financial Habits — and Passing Them On to Our Kids!
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by jmwalters718
4y ago
My parents were never the type of people to live above their means. When they first got married and needed a dining room set, they waited until they saved enough cash to buy it outright rather than charge it to a credit card—and they cherished it all the more because of that. When my brother and I were born, they worked hard to provide us with all the food, clothing, and toys we could possibly need without overdoing it. We vacationed to places like Pennsylvania and Florida rather than tropical islands or faraway countries, making priceless memories just the same. When I graduated from college ..read more
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New Year, New Opportunities
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by jmwalters718
4y ago
I have never been a big fan of new year’s resolutions. They’ve always put a lot of extra pressure on me at a time when I really need to chill out after the madness of the holidays. Then, when life with a husband and three kids and freelance work inevitably gets in the way of sticking to my resolutions, I end up feeling like a complete failure and falling into a depression. So instead of making big resolutions that are almost impossible for me to succeed at, I just think about little changes I want to make in the new year and resolve to do my best to make them. These changes are much easier to ..read more
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Back to School, Plus a Chance to Win a $1,000 College Scholarship from Groza Learning Center!
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by jmwalters718
4y ago
Many children across the U.S. are getting ready to head back to school. But here in Northern Virginia, public school doesn’t start again for another four weeks. Still, the summer has seemed to fly by for us. For one thing, it’s a week shorter this year: Our district shifted the school calendar so that school will end a week a week earlier in June and start a week earlier (the week before Labor Day). But because the 2016-17 school year still followed last year’s calendar, our kids still got out at the same time. That means this summer break is only 9 1/2 weeks for us, instead of 10 1/2. Then, M ..read more
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10 Truths About Twins … and Matt and Nate Turn 6!
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by jmwalters718
4y ago
Next week, Matt and Nate turn 6. SIX!!! That means they’ll no longer be part of the early-childhood set. They’ll officially be considered big kids. And I just can’t believe it. I feel like I’ve been through the biggest challenge of my life and have made it through the other side mostly unscathed, aside from a few more wrinkles and gray hairs. Whaaaaaaat? We’re turning 6 years old???I started this blog when I was pregnant with the boys and admittedly terrified at the prospect of having twins. Once they were born, it was comforting to write about the challenges of having two babies—the huge expe ..read more
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Keep Lice Away This Summer!
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by jmwalters718
4y ago
With the school year winding down for some kids and already over for others, this may seem like an odd time for me to be writing a post about head lice. But unlike schoolchildren, head lice don’t take the summer off. And without all the back-to-school warnings and media coverage that August and September bring, many parents are probably letting their guard down when it comes to lice. But I’m not. While it’s true that head lice is more prevalent during the school year, the little buggers can still spread at day camps, indoor play gyms, rec centers, and other places at which kids congregate duri ..read more
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Upcycling with Chick-fil-A
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by jmwalters718
4y ago
As a member of the 2016-2017 Chick-fil-A Mom Panel, I get to try menu items for free in exchange for my opinions about food, kids’ meal prizes, and more. Sometimes, I am also asked to participate in fun challenges. Recently, Mom Panel members received coupons for free bowls of chicken tortilla soup or chicken noodle soup and were challenged to upcycle the empty containers. According to Merriam-Webster, upcycle means “to create an object of greater value from (a discarded object of lesser value).” It wasn’t long before the Panel’s Facebook page was flooded with posts showcasing all of the amazi ..read more
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Mudpuppy Puzzles Are Perfect for Travel!
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by jmwalters718
4y ago
Military life comes with frequent moves. That often means being far away from family and friends—and driving or flying long distances to visit them. So, military kids often do a lot of traveling. My children are the perfect example. My twin boys logged at least five cross-country airplane flights by the time they were 2. My daughter took a 3,000-mile road trip with us at 5 weeks old when we moved from California to Virginia. Over the past two years, we’ve driven to New York to visit family more often than I can count. Add to that our various vacations, and you’re looking at some very well-trav ..read more
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Great Wolf Lodge Lives Up to Its Hype!
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4y ago
Since becoming parents, we’d been hearing SO much about Great Wolf Lodge, a family resort and indoor water park with 16 locations across the U.S. and Canada. While so many of our fellow parents hyped it up as the ideal vacation spot for families, I’ll admit that it sounded awful to Keith and me. Hundreds of screaming kids running around? Overpriced food? GERMS? No, thank you! But when we saw a great deal pop up on Groupon recently, we decided to give the Williamsburg, Virginia location a shot. Our package included two nights in a KidKamp suite and a $50 daily food credit at a greatly reduced p ..read more
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Share Your Hero With Mrs. Fields
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by jmwalters718
4y ago
Merriam-Webster defines the word “hero” as follows: a person who is admired for great or brave acts or fine qualities. I can’t think of anyone who fits that description more completely than my husband, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Keith Walters. Keith has served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, during which he received three Purple Hearts for wounds he sustained in combat. He is well respected by so many soldiers and officers who have served with him. Those are the reasons he is considered a hero to many. This was at 6 am on July 4, 2011. Keith was holding one of our 2-week-old twins before leav ..read more
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