You know you're a parent leaving for vacation when you realize you've done everyone's laundry but your own. Hello, my name is Maria and I'm leaving for vacation soon and I haven't done my laundry.  Everyone else will have...
Motherhood is madness.  And I should know as I looked up the definition of madness and there it is clear as day - frenzied behavior, behavior or thinking that is very foolish or dangerous.  Yep, that about sums up motherhood...
It's soccer season, which means it's soccer mom season. Shout out to all the soccer moms out there! You know you are a soccer mom when: Your weekends revolve around the game schedule Just this week I was trying to organise...
Oh the things I've done wrong!  Seriously, I feel like no matter what I do I end up something something wrong.   And so, I have compiled a list of all of the things I've done wrong.  It actually makes...
How to Get Your Kids to Go to Bed at Night There are so many ways and theories and strategies and books and blog posts about getting your kids to go to bed at night.  Right?  There are even some...
We've all had a mom life crisis outburst.  You know, when you realize that you're a mom and not the seventeen-year-old you see in your head.   Sometimes the mom life crisis outbursts can be as simple as deciding to...
I have a teenager.  And I really think that trying to parent a teenager is a lot like trying to lose weight.  This may seem like a super strange comparison, but let me explain. First - there's the day before...
The Tooth Fairy has not really been discussed in our house - like at all.  In fact, when my son noticed that he had a loose tooth and mentioned the Tooth Fairy I was actually surprised. My son and I...
Recently I watched a viral video of a superfan on The Price Is Right to win the biggest cash amount ever awarded on the game Plinko. He was SO excited and SO happy to win $31,500, it was pretty...
The dictionary defines mom as a person's mother. But, I feel like that doesn't quite do the whole mom thing justice.  And because it's Friday, and because most of us are beginning summer break, I thought it would be...
Messes.  Clean up.  Messes.  More messes.  More clean up.  Only to then see more messes. Can anyone else relate?  While talking to my mother the other day about how I was attempting to clean up the house only to be followed...
Summer is the best, isn't it?  We ALL look forward to summer.     I'm not going to lie, I may or may not have a summer countdown.     Now, it's not your traditional countdown it's more of a "Mom" Countdown. My child...
Wanna know how your parenting stacks up against others? Take this quiz and find out if you are a bad mom! 1. Have you ever: A) Accidentally locked your child in the car? B) Fed your family a meal made from a...
One of my most favorite evening activities these days is pouring a glass of wine and watching HGTV before I pass out from exhaustion. I appreciate this ritual because, unlike my normal TV shows, I don’t need to be...

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OC Moms Guide – April 2024

April is blooming with a bounty of fun family-friendly activities, including celebrations for STEM month (including the solar eclipse!), Passover, Cherry Blossom Festival, and...

OC Moms Guide – March 2024