For Mom

We’ll help you navigate the newly reopened world by finding therapy that takes insurance and adopting anxiety management strategies. The previous few years have been a stressful time for everyone. With a constantly changing COVID-19 pandemic, many had to cope...

Family: Married to my college sweetheart with two kids (one boy, one girl), ages 8 and 6.  Job: I spent the last 17 years in the marketing/communications industry and lived life as a full-blown workaholic. I was always checking my phone, and...

I admit it, I kind of went into IVF (in vitro fertilization) blind. All I knew what that after three years of trying, I was still not pregnant and not getting any younger. I knew my insurance covered infertility...

  Some winter day, far in the future, my son will sit around and talk about what the holidays were like when he was a child. I'm a sucker for nostalgia. One of my favorite quotes is from The Wonder...

There are so many great posts out there about experiences moms face when being judged by strangers when out in public with their kids.  We are constantly judged when our baby is screaming on the plane or our 3-year-old...

Until 1994, parents were encouraged to put their child to sleep on their stomachs. Our foremothers likely gave birth under Twilight Sleep. Growing up, TV was an accessible babysitter. Spanking is still hotly debated today.   Sometimes it can teeter on mommy-shaming...

1. Write a thank you note! I have given myself permission to not write dozens of thank you notes after our wedding, baby shower, or every birthday party. Even though I am thankful, I find it wasteful and forced by...

Warmer days got you wanting to trade out your Uggs for spring sandals? Maybe it's time for a closet clean-out? I know that may not sound real fun. But what if you got to attend (or host) a "naked...

Call me insensitive, call me unsentimental, call me crazy, but the morning I walked away from dropping off my youngest starting Kindergarten, I did cartwheels the whole way home, up a 2 mile hill, with no shoes on, in...

We're excited to present our newest editorial series, Mom About Town. In this series, we will highlight mothers in Flagstaff that are doing amazing things! From business owners to volunteers and community ambassadors we hope these interviews are encouraging...

Childhood is Messy, Organization helps! Before your baby was even placed in your arms you were filling out paperwork for them. At the doctors office, the hospital registration forms, and what about those truly sweet cards from your baby shower...

As most of us know, toddlers are tricky. They can communicate their wants, they don’t fully understand their emotions, and their highs can turn to lows in an instant (and vice versa). They are also so full of love...

When I was pregnant with both of my kids, I felt pressure to have a “perfect” delivery. There's a whole market around this: doulas, birth centers, a plethora of books and videos…and Flagstaff, with its hipster vibe, is all...