Before my husband and I began trying to get pregnant, we vacationed in Mexico, one of our favorite places. We talked about what it...
“It looks just like a museum!” I exclaimed to Jeff, his face shining back at me with the same expression of amused delight. Every...
I was watching one of my favorite sitcoms the other day and it just so happened to be the Mother’s Day episode. In the...
Hi, I'm Nickie. And I'm a mommy blogger.
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I have yet to hear from a single friend that their political or personal opinion has been changed from something they’ve seen posted on...
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If you had told the 13-year-old me that one day I was going to convert to Judaism and raise my child Jewish, I wouldn't...
I come from a fairly large family. With more cousins than I can count on my fingers and toes, family and connectivity is something...
I'm a big fan of happiness and habits guru Gretchen Rubin. (If you're into podcasts, be sure to check out Happier with Gretchen Rubin.)...
My husband recently took our nine-month-old daughter along on some errands. They picked up dog food, went to the grocery store, and stopped by a...
I thought when I birthed my first child that that was the hardest thing I'd ever have to do. Boy was I wrong.
Marriage is...
I love my husband, but I’m in an emotional affair.
I’m not sure how I let this happen. I’m a happily married woman, or I...
Love. Two years post-separation and a year after my divorce, if there was one word to sum up how I’m feeling now, that word...
Every year on the third Sunday of September wives get a day. ONE DAY. This year, Sunday, September 19th is Wife Appreciation Day. Sure, there’s...

























