Dear Santa, I’ve been a very good stay-at-home mom this year. I’ve packed all the lunches, washed and folded all of the laundry, prepared homemade dinners, bandaged cuts, kissed skinned knees, organized play dates, scrubbed toilets, made beds, found toys, food shopped on a budget, handled school pick-up and drop-off, scheduled all doctors appointments… and…
Category: Holidays
What Our Contributors are Thankful for this Year…
Tomorrow, we celebrate Thanksgiving. We will likely gather around a table filled with food, surrounded by our large extended family, immediate family, or friends who’ve become family. So, what better time to reflect on all of the things for which we are grateful. We asked out contributors to share a little bit about what they…
Black Friday: The Tricks of the Trade
Are you brave enough to face the crowds on Black Friday? If you’re like me, you train all year long for this day, as if this were the Super Bowl. Black Friday has been a tradition for my mom and aunts for over 15 years. I have many memories of being a kid and stealthily…
Not Going Overboard for the Holidays: Thanksgiving
Ahhh… the holiday season is upon us. If you’re not travelling from one family members house to another (sometimes across state borders), you’re hosting. Now, don’t get me wrong, there’s pros to hosting. You don’t have to travel and you get to stay home. But, with hosting comes the cleaning, the prepping, the shopping, the…
Family Stories {Keeping Memories Alive}
The Thanksgiving holiday starts off a season of nostalgia and excitement for me. I look forward to the family gatherings, good food and great conversations. Who is the best storyteller in your family? Does your family have “those” stories? The ones that never die out and get requested by various family members over and over…
The Division Between Bitterness and Hope
“We’re going to adopt.” The words felt foreign coming out of my mouth and were mixed with tears. I was bitter, not that we were adopting, but that starting a family was so hard. Declaring our choice out loud seemed to be an admission that my body failed. We had been at a precipice for…
Accepting Help from Others
If Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemon Cupcakes I have been fiercely independent from a young age. I liked things how I liked them, I was going to do it my way, and didn’t need help doing it. I am still like this as an adult, although experience and maturity tells me things aren’t always…
Our BEST Halloween Costumes {UR Basic Mom Edition}
Happy Halloween, everyone, from the Ur Basic Mom team! In honor of the most fun (well maybe second most fun) holiday for kids, we’ve asked our contributors to share their best Halloween costumes, EVER. Check out the Ur Basic Mom team’s best Halloween costumes… in no particular order: Annie- Ur Basic ‘Pooh’ Mom My mom…
Daylight Saving Time Strikes Again
Fall is upon us and amid all the brown, yellow, rusty orange and pumpkin spice everything looms another seasonal tradition: Daylight Saving Time. Yep, you read that correctly, Daylight Saving Time, that time of year when it ends and we have to move the clocks (again) and deal with the aftermath. You either love it…
Firework Slime
Summertime screams backyard BBQs, lightning bug catching, long evenings on the porch, sipping some summertime wine and of course FIREWORKS. (That kind of sounds like the beginning of a country song, doesn’t it?) Fireworks are always so much fun to watch around the Fourth of July, we love watching from a distance. The kid’s eyes…