A Letter from Mother to Daughter I was watching my three year old the other day as she was playing with her friends. Their innocence made me smile, as everything was just fine and perfect in their “three year old world.” These little ladies playing dress up and house, didn’t have a worry outside of exactly how their sandwiches […] Read more…
It’s not easy being a blogger. Did you know everyday when bloggers write an article and publish it out into the Internet, it has potential to reach 3 BILLION people. According to Internet Live Stats, in 2016 there have been that many internet users in the entire world! SO crazy! Putting yourself out there is NOT […] Read more…
“Enjoy these years!” This is the advice nearly every new mother is given again and again and again. At times, as a brand-new mom with a precious newborn, when hearing these words from random strangers, I would smile and nod. Many times I would even say something like, “Oh, I am! Life is so wonderful!” […] Read more…
You know that amazing feeling when you go to bed knowing your entire house is clean? Yeaaaaaah, neither do I. And to be honest? Most moms don’t. Being a mom is a whole lot of work! As you juggle your daily lists of things to do {which INCLUDES cleaning the house at least seven times}, […] Read more…
You know how it goes… you walk in from work, put your keys down, take your tie off and are ready to have a relaxing evening with the family after a long day at the office. Then your wife walks down the stairs and hands you the baby with that stressed-out, messy hair, no makeup, […] Read more…
From the moment we become pregnant as women and become mothers, EVERY person has a different opinion as to what we should eat, how we should sleep and how much we should exercise. Shortly after those fast eight months fly by and then the final month that feels like seven years finally passes… everyone has […] Read more…
Laundry?! Ain’t nobody got time for that! My sister has five kids and a husband – that is SEVEN people she is constantly doing laundry for. In my home, it is just my husband, my three year old and I…but often times I feel like I am doing laundry for TWENTY and I just calmly […] Read more…
In this world today, parents are being criticized for…well…just about everything. How we give birth. How we feed our children. How we watch them too closely. How we don’t watch them enough. How we give our children medicine. How we use essential oils. How we let them sleep in their own beds. How we co-sleep. How […] Read more…
I was sixteen years old when I was sitting in a cold doctor’s office with my mom. We had been running test after to test to see what the problem might be – and the results were finally in. The doctor swung open the door and sat us both down to tell us the news. […] Read more…
The momiform… Everywhere you go, you see it. In the drop-off line at school, at the grocery store, in the library, especially at Target, even at the park and maybe even in your own home. Moms all over the world are rockin’ their comfortable pants that are easy to move around in, oversized tees […] Read more…
Clocks! Oh boy! Why? Why can’t we all just go with the flow. I used to HAVE to be on time. I swear I mentally would tell myself something starts 20 minutes before, so that I would get there “on time”. That all went out the window when my first baby came. My sister always used […] Read more…
As a mom, I often find myself wondering why other moms seem to have their acts together and I am a struggling hot mess sometimes. Many days I wonder if there is some sort of secret manual that I missed out on that explains how to find more wins than losses throughout the day. It […] Read more…
Every mom knows this moment. No matter where you are…. in the grocery store, a restaurant, a park or even Target, the dreaded words come out of your toddler’s cute mouth… “Mom, I need to go potty!” Often times I will ask her to hold it, but no more than twenty seconds later those little […] Read more…
“So… what do YOU like to do?” All eyes were on me and my mind was completely blank. Ummm… I like…to… be… a mom? I answered, but questioned myself slowly. It was at that moment that I realized that my life revolved around my baby girl! “What do I like to do?! What in the world […] Read more…
New Years Eve. A day to start fresh. A day to start something new. A day to become the person you always imagined of becoming. A brand new beginning. It’s crazy how life changes so quickly. Every year we have a family tradition of writing our New Years Resolutions on a piece of paper and […] Read more…
Let’s be honest. Being a Mom is hard. Throughout the day you put on several hats as you transition from personal assistant to taxi service to professional sanitation specialist. It can be a pretty messy business. Finding yourself knee deep in diapers and laundry can cause you to wonder how the other “perfect” moms manage […] Read more…
I looked around the house and it looked like a war zone. It was the end of what seemed to be the longest day of my life. I tried to clean up after each set of toys were dumped out of their individual buckets, but I had obviously failed. Somehow, the little two-year-old was much […] Read more…
I love being a mom. I also love reading articles about other women’s experiences and admiring all of the different ways that you can actually be a mom. I think that is one of the best things about being a mom – that there are a million ways to be a good one! When you […] Read more…
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