Health + Wellness

After the birth of my fourth child, I had an Amniotic Fluid Embolism. I wrote in a previous post about it in case you are unfamiliar with the rare phenomenon. Coming home was terrifying because I was battling (and...

Cancer sucks. I wish I were more eloquent but: cancer sucks. It has been both my personal and professional experience that not only does it suck, but it’s also a thief! A cancer diagnosis and the associated treatment(s) (surgery,...

Ahhh, the first haircut. It can be either a blessing or a curse. Some parents walk in with an I-can-do-this resolve or they wear a sheepish grin hinting at an apology to the stylist. We have all been there--or...

I love my husband. He’s my best friend, my confident, and the person I want to fall asleep next to most nights (when I’m not having one of those episodes where I’m overly hot and not admitting that it...

April is marked as National Donate Life Month. Organ and supplemental donations are a subject that I was thrown into without much warning. You see, my daughter is the recipient of a liver transplant. Without it, she would not...

I've always been obsessed with mermaids. Maybe it's the strawberry in my blonde hair, channeling my inner Ariel. Maybe it's that I've always loved manatees too, the creatures oft mistaken by seafarers as mermaids in days long ago. Weightlessness,...

I hear about them on a daily basis. Bladders that leak, burn, spasm, and overall misbehave. Symptoms can range in severity from simply annoying to completely devastating. As a urology nurse practitioner I hear it all, and I empathize...

I grinned cheekily at my husband, his golden hair mussed, his cheeks slightly flushed from the exertion of moments earlier. I looked at the clock. Yep. We were going to be late again. We repeated this drill nearly every Sunday...

Sorry, not sorry, for all the transformation posts on my Facebook page.  You see, I'm not doing it for attention or all the comments--positive or negative--I am doing it to be a role model to my children, especially my daughter,...

_ Here are a few proposals my campaign team, Moms for Mondays, would like to introduce to help jump start your week and make Mondays great again!   Prep Your Wardrobe Select daily outfits for yourself and your kids over the weekend...