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Parenting

Transition to Toddler Bed While Traveling

July 6, 2018 By Aileen Leave a Comment This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

This post on transitioning to a toddler bed while traveling brought to you by DockATot. We received a complimentary product to facilitate this post.  A simple way for your toddler to transition to toddler bed – even while traveling! Learn what worked from a mom of three. Allison started climbing out of her crib at…

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toddler girl laying on pillow pet with baby doll and blanket

Filed Under: Mom Life, Parenting, RV Travel, Travel, Travel with Kids

Life With Three Kids

March 21, 2018 By Aileen 2 Comments This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

I was going over my old posts and realized I haven’t shared much on our day-to-day life now that we are a family of 5. I shared a day in the life back when we had just two kids and share plenty on Instagram and my facebook group but not much here. So I thought I would…

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Family of five with crying baby

Filed Under: Mom Life, Parenting

How to Get Your Kids to Nap at the Same Time

January 5, 2018 By Aileen 2 Comments This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

This post on nap time was sponsored by Walmart and Parent’s Choice. All opinions are my own. We have three kids ages five and under. It can sometimes be inconvenient, but nap time is a huge priority around here for us. I know nap time can be a challenge for parents of multiple kids. I…

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Girl standing in brown crib looking at pink sheet and pink blanket.

Filed Under: Mom Life, Parenting

It’s okay to say NO to Christmas Traditions

December 18, 2017 By Aileen 3 Comments This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

I love this time of year. I love the Christmas lights, music, family time, and all of the baking. You know what I don’t like? Setting unrealistically high expectations for myself to do all of the Christmas Traditions. It’s stressful and takes the joy right out of the holiday season for me. More and more,…

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Feeling overwhelmed by Christmas? Say no to some of those over the top Christmas Traditions and take your sanity back!

Filed Under: Christmas, Family Traditions, Mom Life, Parenting Tagged With: christmas, christmas traditions, family traditions

Enjoying Thanksgiving Break

November 22, 2017 By Aileen Leave a Comment This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

Can I just say that I am thoroughly enjoying the kids’ Thanksgiving break from school? Like really enjoying it. It’s been so nice to just take our time in the mornings and spend quality time together. Today, we leisurely got out of bed, watched a movie, made some breakfast, and then played in a Giant….

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Our Thanksgiving Break. Grateful for time with my kids

Filed Under: Mom Life, Parenting Tagged With: mom life, parenting, preschool, preschoolers

Positive Re-enforcement with Sticker Charts

November 11, 2017 By Aileen Leave a Comment This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

When school started a few months ago, I was having a huge struggle with my oldest. The struggle was getting out of the house in a timely manner. You see, his seat was in the third row (our middle row had two bucket seats occupied by his sisters). That meant at the ripe age of…

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Parenting your child with positive reinforcement using sticker charts.

Filed Under: Mom Life, Parenting Tagged With: positive parenting

Creating a Family Emergency Kit

October 21, 2017 By Aileen Leave a Comment This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

This post contains affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. All of the natural disasters happening across the United States recently got me thinking seriously about our family emergency kit – or lack there of. We had thought about and talked about putting together an emergency kit many times over the year. But every time…

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Learn how to create a 72 hour family emergency kit and be prepared for natural disasters

Filed Under: Mom Life, Parenting

Car Changing Station

October 6, 2017 By Aileen Leave a Comment This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

Now that Fall is here, I have a whole list of things I want to do with my kids. Which means we will be out and about and in the car a lot. We already have two trips to the pumpkin patch, a (surprise) trip to Disney on Ice, and two school Halloween events on…

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Make your own car diaper changing station. It's a great way to be prepared in the car!

Filed Under: Baby Gear, Mom Life, Parenting

Why I Changed my Mind About Preschool

August 4, 2017 By Aileen Leave a Comment This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Bright Horizons Early Education and Preschool for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. When I had my first son, I didn’t believe in preschool. I was a stay at home mom, so why would I pay to send my child to child care? As my son…

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Why I changed my mind about preschool via aileencooks.com

Filed Under: Mom Life, Parenting Tagged With: motherhood, parenting, preschool, school, school readiness

Moving with kids

July 27, 2017 By Aileen 2 Comments This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

Moving with kids can be a daunting task. Moving in general is not fun, but adding in 1 or more little people completely dependent on YOU to pack and move all of their stuff while making them feel good about the transition? That is a big job. We recently moved our family of 5 to…

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Moving with Kids: How we moved with 3 kids 5 and under.

Filed Under: Mom Life, Parenting Tagged With: moving

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