Shay Scholtes
Shay is the wife to a self proclaimed IT nerd, mama to two daughters, Sophia-5 and Saidey-2. By day she is an addiction/mental health therapist and by night she is a blogger/writer at Three Gals and a Guy, reader, and binger of Netflix and reality TV. LIfe can get crazy busy, but she wouldn't have it any other way!
Deciding When To Leave Kids Home Alone
My husband and I have three kids, two of which are almost 13 and 10 years old. For the past year or so, the topic of when to start leaving kids at home by...
Talking to Kids About Suicide
The unfortunate truth is that many of us have been touched by suicide, whether by someone we loved, someone we knew, or even hearing about it in the news or social media. The other...
Seasonal Affective Disorder
If you're in Iowa, you know all too well the slump of the winter months. Increase in illness in ourselves and our kids, snow days, negative degree weather, and icy/snowy roads leads many of...
Lessons Learned in 2022
Anyone else finding it hard to believe it’s going to be 2023 soon?! I feel like I’m still stuck in 2020.
As the year winds down, I always go into reflective mode. These are a...
7 Tips for Finding Calm in Motherhood
In the last 12 years of being a parent, an infamous saying of mine would sound a little like this, “It’s just busy right now, it’ll get better after x,y,z.”
Narrators voice: She was fooling...
Why I Love My Kid’s Age Difference
Before I had kids, I had certain ideas of how far apart I wanted my kids. My husband and I talked about what we ideally would want. I knew I wanted 3 to 4...
8 Ways to Manage Back to School Anxiety
It’s August and that means most of us are gearing up for back to school season. Meet the teacher night, back to school shopping, and the ever important first day of school front porch...
7 Simple Home Refresh Ideas
Spring is a fresh start, new growth, and for lots of us- a little spring cleaning! For me, I like to do a little home refresh to give it a little lift after the...
Talking to Kids About Body Image
At the fresh age of 23 when I had my first daughter, I didn’t realize how much one tiny human could teach ME. Becoming a mom truly helped me become the best version of...
Why We Choose the Gentle Parenting Approach
Imagine this: you just had a really stressful day at work. You get home and proceed to vent and express your frustrations to your partner. Your partner then scolds you for being so dramatic...