Tag: motherhood

My child is good inside; I say to myself as I catch him screaming "holy s$%t" while going down the indoor water slide. *smiles...

My four-year-old learned to ride her bike recently. At first, it was just her and me during the day. She woke up ready to...

The other night I was lying in bed when a classic being-a-mom-induced insomnia came on with the symptom of one million thoughts a minute....

I am a sucker for a good binge-worthy TV show. Just how people like to make you feel guilty for being a cat person,...

I get quite a few different reactions when I first tell people I participated in Greek life in college. I don't, by any means,...

My heart cracked a little during bedtime snuggles when my second grader told me he didn’t have any friends. My heart raced, my stomach...

There are 86,400 seconds every day. As a parent, you cannot be present for each of them. One app, though, challenges you to record...

January is here, and with it, the impulse to draft goals and resolutions that will transform us more into the person we want to...

I'm usually not one for resolutions, but I have a singular focus for 2023: I want to be fun again.  I definitely used to be...

It is currently 8:07 PM on New Year’s Eve. In prior years I would have had a laundry list of New Year's resolutions. They typically...

I am the official scheduler of my family. Admittedly, I’m quite good at it. I can see my and my spouse’s respective work calendars...

At the end of October, we made the challenging decision to put down our beloved cat, Snuggie. Making that choice was very difficult, but...

Here's what I know: postpartum is this rollercoaster of chaos; one moment, you feel like you could fly and then the next, it's nothing...

Confession, I was not always the avid reader I am today. When I reveal this little tidbit about myself now, people tend to find...