Health + Wellness

This year, after wanting to ski the Kortelopet for like, the last decade, I decided that this was the year: Kortelopet 2018. The Kortelopet is a ski race that’s half the distance of the world-class Birkiebeiner and is a...

That title got your attention, didn’t it? Of course it did because we moms are mostly all in the same boat and are desperate to find where we misplaced our sexy after tiny humans have sprung forth out of...

I was five months pregnant again, working full-time and running after my two-year-old toddler, and this pregnancy had me nervous. With my boy, I was so pleased to be pregnant: I felt more energetic, my rosacea cleared up, my...

Milestones. Life is full of them. At 15, we get our driver's permit. At 16, we can drive! At 18, we are considered adults and are released from the walls of high school and thrown into the real world....

Something happened to me in 2017, I woke up one day and realized how unhappy I was. I couldn't put my finger on why. I have a wonderful husband, active and healthy kids, a supportive circle of friends, and...

“Your baby has a birth defect.”  Words no mother should ever have to hear.  Yet there I was at a measuring ultrasound, with a new doctor who specialized in ultrasounds because my regular OBGYN happened to be booked solid...

I was checking the date of my daughter’s next appointment in her online medical record account and there it was, “failure to thrive”. It was listed in black and white under her current medical problems. I knew in my...

I’m going to be honest with you. I spend the majority of my days in a haze of just barely getting by. It’s mid-winter, so at least one of my girls is sick with a cold. Or a flu....

For ten long, irritating years, my husband begged me to move to the Duluth area.  Before last summer when I had finally given in (at which point, it was my idea – not his – so it was okay),...

I am that girl.  That girl who signs up for gym memberships but never utilizes them. This is embarrassing to admit, but I had a gym membership for around 4 years at one of those franchise places and guess how many times I used it? 15, if that.