Motivating parenting lifestyle mom blog by TV host, author & digital influencer Jill Simonian.
A previous version of the following piece was originally published in The Fresno Bee on January 4, 2020. Hello 2020! I tend to start each new year with new goals for self care, a personal mental checklist if you will. Call it a habit of analyzing what the previous year brought, what it didn’t bring,…
The following is sponsored by The Shops at Montebello and Guinness World Records 2020. My big rule for Christmas gifts? Something you want, something you need, something to wear, something to read. See? DONE. Just like that. And they say the ...
Living with loss. Hard for adults. Sometimes necessary for kids. This last weekend my sister brought her daughters to spend some extra time together during this now-somber annual time for our families. We were talking in my kitchen and noticed an ...
The following piece was originally published in The Fresno Bee on November 2, 2019. Hi, November. The silver turkey's back on my table again and I'm bracing myself for the annual holidaze. Last month, I shared how every October brings me ghosts ...
Everyone has their own month -- a month that haunts us, that reminds us of the dark, that sneaks up and tries to scare us when we let our guard down for a second. Mine is October -- but not because of Halloween. October now delivers me ghosts. ...
A previous version of this article was published in The Fresno Bee on October 5, 2019. Students, discipline and why us parents need to step up more than ever... kindly stop reading now if you don't enjoy truth in accountability. Several weeks ...
Dear Daughter, I'm not sure how or why we got here so fast. Halfway, they say. Halfway to 18, halfway to college. Halfway until you are gone from this home as a child. NINE. Nine years of you. Nine years of a reinvented me (being mommy). Nine ...
