Heather Hemmert

Heather lives with her husband, daughter and son and has learned to accept that Utah is now her permanent home. Before becoming a stay at home mom, she taught elementary school and loves to use that background to create fun activities to entertain her children. Though staying home with the kids is great, Heather has always enjoyed finding more ways she can keep herself sane, including elaborate cross stitch designs and playing with any puppy she can find. She particularly loves to read and write and prides herself in always remaining honest in her posts about life as a wife and mother, even when the truth is sometimes embarrassing.

I have had an Instant Pot sitting in my pantry for almost two years. Two years ago, I bought it for a steal on Amazon and was so excited to try it. But like many, I felt intimidated by the high pressure cooker. So instead of easily searching Google or YouTube for help, and instead …

We do our best house cleaning in the ten minutes before guests arrive and don’t you deny it. Between the chores, the errands, the kids and all their thousands of needs, cleaning the house sometimes feels like you’re climbing a mountain of toddler boogers. You make progress two steps, and then slide back to the …

I dropped my oldest kid off to kindergarten today and I didn’t cry. In fact, I was very excited to wave her goodbye and get this part of life started! I was the only mom there who wasn’t misty-eyed. Okay, maybe I wasn’t the ONLY one, but it sure felt that way when all the …

This is an issue every single parent will deal with sooner rather than later: how do I organize and store my kid’s endless amounts of artwork? Good question. Here are four different methods that I’ve seen friends of mine use to solve this problem: Method one: In clear tubs/boxes, labeled by grade year. This is …

If you live near Las Vegas or are planning a trip there this summer, I have a fun, family-friendly activity suggestion that’s totally worth the ticket cost: The Tournament of Kings dinner and show at Excalibur! Usually when you think Vegas and the Strip, “family friendly” isn’t the first thing coming to your mind. But …

You’ve heard the advice about keeping an emergency preparedness kit in your car for situations like getting stuck on the side of the road during winter, right? Those usually include things like a blanket, flashlight, orange cone or flares, etc. But I propose all mothers out there keep a different kind of emergency kit in …

Have you ever wanted to combine a functional kid décor item with a sophisticated piece of art that you can keep long after your kid has grown? Now you can, with an Ages & Stages mobile from Wind Walker Gallery! In then entire 5 years that I’ve been a parent, I’ve always wanted a mobile …

Raise your hand if you have ovaries. Raise your hand if someone you love has ovaries. Oh look, that’s all of you. Raise your hand if you feel like you were properly prepared for your first period. Oh look, that’s fewer of you. I don’t think I was properly taught what to expect about my …

We’ve all seen the memes: Nope, they aren’t just click bait or people trolling for “likes.” This happens in real life, as I painfully discovered a few nights ago. Three hours, three new parts ordered, and one very shampooed carpet later, I’ve learned my lesson to never leave my robot vacuum in the same room …

If you’re a new mom or soon to be mom, I’m going to save you some time and sanity with this list of hacks you’ll need sooner rather than later. These are just some of the things I wish I had known about MUCH sooner! Grocery pickup and/or delivery: This is a thing now; use …

You know what every pregnant woman is missing in her life? More things to shove up her vag! Oh, I’m sorry, correction: more things that will help her connect to her unborn fetus* shoved up her vag. There, now it’s not vulgar; it’s sweet! *Collective swooning of hormonal women everywhere* So if you’ve got a …

We all know parenting has changed in the past 30 years. Gone are the days of riding without a car seat in the front row of the station wagon. Gone is the trust to let your 6-year-old wait in the car as you run into the gas station for 2 minutes to grab some milk. …