Top 5 Tips for Reading at Home

Reading at home with your child is very important in helping them to improve their reading skills.  I want to share with you my top 5 tips for reading at home. ———- Join Nitra’s Secret Treehouse for more literacy tips ———- Reading Aloud Reading aloud is one of the BEST things you can do to help your child’s Read More

Holiday and Seasonal Traditions for Kids

What are some holiday and seasonal traditions for kids?  This was a hot topic of conversation for many of my mom friends when we had kids.  I asked my mom friends from all over what are some of the holiday traditions they have in their family for their kids.  I wanted to share their responses Read More

How to Build a Basic Emergency Home Kit

How to build a basic emergency home kit: A home kit is just that it is a kit for handling an emergency at home.  Most common one is usually a power outage so keeping the supplies for that near the top of your kit is a good idea. You may be thinking if I am Read More

How to Prepare for an Emergency with a Kid

How to prepare for an emergency?  Figuring out what your essentials are and start planning.  There are additional things to think about when you have kids.  In 2016 when all the storms hit we really looked and realized that we did not have supplies for an emergency like that.  Also in our town we had Read More

Newborn Life Part 2

Newborn life was quiet with Ashlyn, which really surprised me.  I had heard about quiet babies but did not expect to have one.  Ashlyn never really fussed a lot and we got lucky, she only ever spit up like twice.  We are not into any form of cry it out, so she never really had Read More