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2 Years of Speech
SJ said her first word just barely over two years ago, when she was three years old. She said "up" and pointed to go upstairs. I freaked out. Just a little bit. From then on [...]
My Loud Dishwasher
Most of my adult life I have been washing dishes by hand. I know it shocking that there are people in AMERICA in the 21st century that do not have dishwashers, but it's true! I [...]
Meeting a Project Runway Fashion Designer
A couple years ago my best friend called me to let me know that there was a deaf designer on Project Runway that signed and had a cochlear implant. I had never watched the show [...]

Create Your Own Speech Therapy Book

By Natalie|2023-06-12T06:33:06+00:00March 21, 2016|Categories: Babies & Toddlers, Creativity, Hearing Loss, Schooling, Special Needs, Speech Therapy|Tags: customize board book, experience book, hearing loss, language book, shutterfly, speech book, speech delay, speech therapy|

When SJ was first diagnosed with hearing loss I was encouraged to create an experience book. Books are a great resource for speech delays anyway, but a book that has pictures and experiences that your child can directly identify with [...]

Elle at 4 months

By Natalie|2016-03-11T16:19:01+00:00March 11, 2016|Categories: Babies, My Life|

Elle has had a major growth spurt over the past month. It's like someone pulled the cord on a self inflating raft and she just instantly filled out. She is currently sitting at 14 pounds of super cute chunkiness. Here [...]

The Big Six

By Natalie|2016-03-08T12:36:54+00:00March 8, 2016|Categories: Frugal Living, Motherhood, Parties, Uncategorized|Tags: 6 years old, birthday, cake, decorations, lost tooth, party|

SJ turned 6 years old on Friday. If you have spent any time around MessyMom.com then you probably know I like to party. SJ has had a Cupcake Party, Green Eggs and Ham Party, Donut Party, and Tea Party. However [...]

I’m Back… Hopefully

By Natalie|2016-02-09T09:35:36+00:00February 9, 2016|Categories: My Life|

Things have been a little crazy at messymom.com. Mostly because of technical issues causing my website to crash repeatedly all day every day. So if you come to MessyMom.com and it looks like it no longer exists, just hang tight because [...]

Acknowledging the Self Control Crisis

By Natalie|2016-02-03T14:06:38+00:00February 2, 2016|Categories: My Life, Parenting Tips, Uncategorized|

I recently did a book review of Strong and Kind by Korie Robertson. I mentioned the idea presented in the book to choose two character traits that you would want to be the main focus in your home. J and I chose [...]

Messy Mom 2015 Book Reviews

By Natalie|2016-01-12T12:49:28+00:00January 12, 2016|Categories: My Life, Uncategorized|

Last year I did multiple posts reviewing and rating the books that I read in 2014. The next year I had the best of intentions to take notes as I read. I wanted to be prepared to deliver excerpts and [...]

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