One of the things I love the most about living in Vermont is downtown Burlington. On our first visit here, we had lunch and a walk on the cobblestone streets of this most adorable downtown scene. We were hooked. We...
{Disclaimer: We are working with Davis Studio to bring you this post, however, all opinions are our own!} Dear Diary, We did it. I’m a little shocked, but we made the decision. Caroline is going to preschool in the fall! I know, I know,...
“I am signing off from Facebook for a while, starting this evening, please PM me for my email/cell before 9pm this evening if interested in getting a hold of me. Also, I'm planning to hide and delete all political...
BurlingtonVT Moms Blog is partnering with Phoenix Physical Therapy to bring you our latest series titled “50 Shades of Sleep”, about…you guessed it….sleep.  Like an elusive treasure, we find ourselves obsessing about sleep not only for ourselves but for...
Today is the day, everyone!  You sent in your nominations, and we have narrowed it down to the top 8 finalists for our Father of the Year Contest!  And let us just say, this was NO easy task. All the...

Math With Kids

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1 + 2 = 3 Three is a tough number. I didn't need a parenting book to tell me that. I lived it every time we visited my Aunt Monique's house in Quebec City. My older sister would pair up...
This is a really cool time to be a mom and an avid reader. Millennials, my generation, born between 1980-1995, are starting to have kids of their own. And we are not accepting the tired tropes of Mommy Culture....

Summer Growing

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It starts as a cosmic thought, really.  A mostly unobserved energetic grain of will.  Then there is a breaking- a microscopic frenzy of a breaking and nothing can live save for the violence of that original break.  Green starts underground, and...
Look, I am no financial expert.  My husband hasn't worked at a for-profit organization since his teenage days in the Wal-Mart technology department.  He was a total stud, I wish I had known him then. Recently I paid our mortgage...
Who doesn’t want their kids to love books?  Right now, my 18 month old daughter is a champ at reading board books over and over (and over and over…). But, I’m not always sure what the ‘next’ step should be...
When I got divorced, learning how to talk about it with my son did not come easily.  When I first told my 10-year-old son about becoming a contributing writer for BVTMB, he immediately told me “Mom! You should write about...
Say there is this person, newly arrived to the world, very short and ready to soak up information like a glass of grape juice overturned on a white comforter (that is, fast).  This person's first encounter with a spatula...
Murphy’s Law is an adage that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Personally, I think this is the perfect way to describe parenting. For the past seven years, my frenemy Murphy has struck more times than I...
  I see this shame sentiment a lot in memes and on blogs and I used to giggle half-heartedly in response, but the truth is that this sentiment rubs me the wrong way. It feels unnecessarily negative. And, in this...

In + Around Vermont

Moving to the Vermont Gayborhood of Our Dreams

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My wife and I, with our then 2-year-old, moved to Vermont in 2021 from rural Missouri.  While we had great friends and community in Missouri,...
A featured image for a blog post about hating fall.

Why I HATE Fall… Y’all