I recently had a COVID test.
Thankfully, my immunity is strong.
I was not symptomatic and ultimately, not positive.
It was standard for a procedure I was...
Ugly truth: Most moms aren’t burned out because they’re doing too much. They’re burned out because they never truly stop. We’ve confused productivity, connection,...
We are on floor one of a children's hospital in a wing called the behavioral assessment emergency department. It has now been more than...
Preparing to have a baby comes with a lot of steps. But the most important one is finding care and a team of experts...
This week alone, I have played phone tag with numerous pharmacies, my doctor’s office, and our insurance company in search of one thing: the...
November is Epilepsy Awareness Month. Last year, I had the privilege of joining the Indianapolis Moms Blog as a contributor. The call-out for new...
A happy, easy baby: that's what our daughter Lauren was from the time she was born. She nursed and napped often and easily and...
I'm relatively certain that these days, most of us do most things online. Clothes shopping, Christmas shopping, etc. I don't even remember the last...
It’s not a new headline that COVID-19 turned everyone’s world upside down in March of 2020. We still are slowly putting back the pieces...
January 2023 was the beginning of my sober curious journey. We were fresh off the holidays, and I felt exhausted, bloated, fatigued, and, quite...
A fellow blogger recently posted a meme: "Whatever you're most scared to write about...write that."
I saw that and thought, wow, how appropriate: It reinforced...
When my brand-new doctor told me approximately 15 minutes after meeting him that he thought I had a congenital heart defect, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, I...
When my son was born, I shed the happy tears, took all the pictures, and reveled in his "new human" scent. Family and friends...
I remember exactly where I was the first time someone called me ma’am. It was a beautiful, late spring evening in 2010. I had...

























