As my child climbed onto the table, barrel-rolled off of it, and then ran like a linebacker into my husband's legs, I knew that the adage of “boys will be boys” was completely wrong. My two year old daughter...
Dear Nursing Bra,
First of all let me just say thank you. Thank you for being there for me through all the phases in my breastfeeding journey. You were even there for me during most of my pregnancies because, well,...
It’s summer, and in our house, inevitably it’s time for the age-old question: “Can I play video games?” And it’s not just video games. It’s screen time on iPads, watching tv, and computer games that my kids just can’t...
I said goodbye to my baby boy the last week of November, as he took his oath for the United States Marine Corps. His whole childhood flashed through my mind, right there in the MEPS office. My sweet little preemie who...
I unapologetically tell my girls they run the world. It's more than a Beyonce song, or a t-shirt that says " girl power."
I have been in a few situations lately where people have stopped my daughters to have what...
Halloween. One of the first words you think of when you think of Halloween is pumpkins; they just kind of go hand-in-hand right?
This year, each trip I made to the store starting in late September I thought "I need...
I’ll start by saying that you can start any of these traditions at any time, but when I was a new mom I really wanted to get Christmas right. I felt a lot of pressure to make sure my...
You buy a test. You pee on the stick. Wait, for what feels like the longest 2 minutes ever. Then you see those two little lines. You’re pregnant! And then enter all the emotions.
If your brain is at all...
Well, we made it through Christmas and my daughter STILL believes in Santa Claus.
She’ll be 8 in a few months.
How can this be? I never thought in a gazillion years she would still have this unwavering faith in the...
I remember when I got pregnant with our third child, I was fairly devastated. It wasn’t planned in any way and by that point we were out of the baby stage, our two kids were nine and six. We...