Musings from Molly
Welcome to the blog portion of the party! I’ve been writing for a long time but in the past few years, I’ve really focused on family, detoxing from digital, faith, and foster care. You’ll find humor and honesty in these articles, but most of all I hope you’ll find tips that will transform your family for the better.
Five Screen Free Kids Activities for Christmas Break
Are they driving you crazy? Fighting, boredom, irrational meltdowns over nonsense? Are video games turning your precious people into grumpy zombies? What can be done? Here are five screen-free boredom busters for your kids this Christmas break. Forget YouTube, these...
How to Help Your Kids Quit Screens
My kids love all of the screens, from Netflix and YouTube to Minecraft and Fortnight. But the screens do not love my kids back. It turns out that screens were doing to my children exactly what the studies claimed they were doing: cultivating distracted, grumpy and...
Winter Viruses, we need to talk
Dear Winter Viruses, On behalf of mothers everywhere, I would officially like to say, thank u, next. It’s been real. . . Real obnoxious. Just when we thought we were over you, one trip to the Chick-fil-A play place; one sneeze from the cute kid behind us...
What to expect when you become a foster parent
There are about as many kids in foster care as there are people in Atlanta, Georgia. That means almost half a million vulnerable kids need loving families. Maybe you want to help, but you're wondering what to expect if you do. Foster parenting is truly a front...
To the mom of two babies under two
I will never forget the look on his face. The salesman rang our doorbell for the third time in as many days, and I’d had enough. He was nice, but persistent as a toothache. Sure, he was just doing his job. But on the inside of that door was a fragile mom, triggered by...
What to Expect – When You Didn’t Expect to be Expecting
Half of all pregnancies are unplanned, according to CNN. But I’ll bet you fifty bucks that many respondents in the “planned” half are big fat liars. Actually, I’ll see my fifty and raise myself another fifty. (Hm. That’s not how betting works, is it? Whatever, just go...