For Mom

If someone was to ask me if I would rather have a nanny, a chef or a maid I would pick chef all the way! I just don’t enjoy cooking. I did when I was newly married with no...

Ever since I was in High School, I was one of those people who had a ton of acquaintances - but only a few close friends.  That trend followed me into my college and through post-college life.  My two...

After I dropped my older son off at daycare for the first time, I drove up 180 weeping. It was not my son’s first day away from me, I’d been back at work full-time for three months. I wasn’t...

October! Fall, leaves changing, cooler temps, football, Halloween; and a few very important awareness 'causes.' Everyone knows about Breast Cancer Awareness, but did you know there are 96 other 'national' months?! (according to National Day Calendar, yes I counted) One of...

Dear Carly, I anxiously waited for your dad to walk into the door of our new home in Baderville. He had been working a long day at Battery Systems and the few hours that I held the information to myself,...

My lovely friend gave a demonstration about time management at our work orientation awhile back. A jar was held up and then filled with rocks. The rocks represented the big things we all have to do. For most moms,...

Even as an experienced adventurer getting outdoors with a new baby was intimidating. How do you keep a baby warm in the winter, or cool in the summer? How do you carry a baby and a backpack? My oldest...

After having my now one-year-old, I was what some consider “crunchy”: I gave birth naturally with not a single drop of medicine, cloth diapered, breastfed her straight from the source, had essential oils coming out of every diffuser, only...

We hear it a thousand times a day. It's always in the middle of a chore or right after we sit down with a hot cup of coffee. "Play with me, Mama!"  Why is it that that phrase can fill me...

As if periods weren't already hard enough to deal with, we are taught they are disgusting. We are told that we must keep them secret from our male siblings, parents, peers and husbands. Mainstream culture says that the mood...

Good news is hard to come by these days, but here's some: book sales have increased. On my own social media accounts, I keep seeing posts of people asking for book recommendations. As a former English and creative writing...

Who here loves to read? Or maybe you used to love to read but in the chaos of long nights, diapers and Daniel Tiger you lost it? I am not a super avid reader. I am more of a...

We all know the struggles of parenting during a pandemic.  Whether you’re an essential worker trying to figure out childcare because you have to go to work and come home exhausted, maybe you are a remote working parent trying...