Last month, while on the phone with my travel agent, she overheard me saying, “Be quiet, mommy is on the phone.” We shared a good laugh as she is a fellow mom.
During that conversation, she reminded me of two...
Life is full of seasons. Seasons of childhood, adulthood, joy, grief, waiting, and thriving. Seasons where some ages are a struggle and some are a blessing. The current season our kiddos are in is a frustrating one. The twins...
We've traveled once by plane when our oldest was 14 months, once from here to Massachusetts by car with all three kids last summer and have had a few overnighters here and there. I am by no means a...
I had a baby in January of 2021. He's been a baby for 18 months today. One and half years of being a baby. As a naive new mom, I asked my birth month mom group, "When are our...
Friends, it’s been a minute since I had a child of the “full-on breakdown in the middle of a store” age. He’s ten and while he will absolutely do his best “You’re ruining my life” teenager impression in Target,...
Friends, I don’t know what to say about this current school year that I’m barely living through. But I will say this. I was not ready for it. None of us living under this roof were ready for it....
To the career woman I used to be, striving and climbing to the top of the tree.
You gave it up. You walked away. To stay at home after the babies came.
But don’t worry, momma, your time will come.
When sweet...
Mamas. It is the end of an era. Today we reached a milestone. Today we got rid of the race car bed that my son has slept in since he left his crib seven years ago. In just a...
There are countless tips for parents: savor every moment; it won't be like this for long, you're going to miss this; sleep when the baby sleeps, then as they get older, wake up before the kids get up to...
My three-year-old daughter wears glasses. She has worn them since she was a little over a year old. The first thing people say to us (after they ask if I know what causes pregnancy -- we get that a...