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Are you ready for your kids to return to school? Check out these cute accessories for their Stanley water bottles!

best stanley water bottle accessories

August 7, 2024

Stanley Water Bottles: Cute Accessories for Kids

I’ve spent the past two weeks polling friends and Instagram friends asking, What do you really want for Mother’s Day? Check it out!

best mothers day gifts 2024

May 1, 2024

The Gifts Moms Really Want for Mother’s Day

We just got back from our first-ever cruise on the Disney Wish. Here’s what we did and a few tips for other first-time cruisers!

Disney Wish cruise ship | We Gotta Talk lifestyle blog & podcast by Sonni Abatta

March 22, 2024

Disney Cruise Review: Disney Wish for Families and First-Time Cruisers

It’s a conversation we wish we didn’t have to have. Here’s a security expert’s advice on talking to kids about school shootings.

June 15, 2022

This Is How to Talk to Your Child About School Shootings by Age (and Five Other Things About Keeping Kids Safe I Learned from a Security Expert)

Fact: Kids hate spinach. Also fact: It’s super easy to hide in a delicious smoothie, like this one!

March 29, 2021

Super Smoothie for Kids (and Parents too)

Let me start off this post by saying, I hate that I have to even write this. A parent’s nightmare, hands-down, is the though of something bad happening to your children.

March 14, 2018

Here’s How to Talk to Your Young Child About School Shootings

Hello, friends! So, a bit of a personal post today, and an update to something big that’s going on in our lives.If you follow my Instagram, you may have seen over the last few weeks in my Stories that we are expecting something BIG in our near future!!!NO… no more babies! Haha. But a new […]

August 15, 2017

About That House…

As you probably saw if you follow me on Instagram, our family just came back from our annual Pittsburgh Pilgrimage.

August 8, 2017

What I Always Do in Pittsburgh

I was 7 or 8 years old, walking circles through the handbag section of TJ Maxx, desperately searching for my mom, when to my relief, I finally heard her calling for me just a few racks away.

July 31, 2017

Weird-Named Kids of the World, Unite

Ladies, gentlemen, and all those with a penchant for utter chaos–witness the wonder that gathers under this tent! Come now, and feast your gaze upon the sheer Crazy.

July 26, 2017

I Run a Three-Ring Circus (and Kinda Love Everything About It)