Tag: motherhood

Decide once: my favorite principle out of my very favorite self-help book, The Lazy Genius Way.  There are so many ways you can apply...

"It’s all too much." Over the past few years, I’ve caught myself repeatedly saying some version of this sentence while waving my hands around...

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,...

For many parents deep in the trenches of raising children, there are moments when parenting feels nothing short of hard. The truth is that...

A couple of months ago, I bought a $15 rainbow-themed visual timer for my 6-year-old daughter as a practical solution to a very specific...

We did not stumble into teaching our kids about money by accident. We heard about the three‑jar system from friends, nodded along as most...

“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother...

It's no secret that being a parent is deeply difficult work. Beautiful and rewarding, yes, but also exhausting, confusing, and confronting work. While I...

Dear Son,  Happy 10th Birthday! How time flies. It seems like just yesterday I was writing a letter to you on your first birthday.  Even though...

When my first baby, M, was born three years ago, it was a transformational experience, one I know so many other mothers share when...

Motherhood is often measured in milestones, but the quiet, in-between moments are where so much of the real story lives. The parts that change...

This is a longer post, but in celebration of Mother's Day, I wanted to put this out there. It has been the hardest thing...

Motherhood is often auto pilot. It’s packing lunches, plugging in chromebooks, folding another load of laundry, and making sure no one skips a shower....

If you’ve navigated a graduation recently, you have likely experienced serious comparison fatigue. There is no shortage of impressive kids out there. Peers...