How To Find and Keep Your Favorite Babysitter

Teenage Babysitter holding a toddler

For most parents it’s the hardest part of planning a date night, isn’t it? After all, you can purchase the movie tickets online. Dinner reservations are only a phone call away.  A little lip gloss and a brush through the hair and you’re ready to go! But when you hear little footsteps running down the hallway […]

5 Book Series That Will Inspire Summer Adventures

5 Book Series to inspire summer adventures | Janitors | www.bitsofivory.com

I always looked forward to summer vacation as a child.  I looked forward to it even more as a mother of young children. The freedom to explore and experience life with fewer boundaries and time constraints has always made it a little bit special. I tend to bristle a bit when researchers prescribe continued educational exercises over […]