The day our schools announced they were closing for an indefinite period of time, I went into preparation mode. I don’t mean stocking up on toilet paper or grocery shopping. I had already done that (the grocery shopping part, not the stocking up on TP). No, I thought: how am I going to keep these […]
Holiday Gift Ideas for Busy Moms
When someone asks me what I want for the holidays, it takes me awhile to come up with things. And when I do have a “list” to share it tends to be really practical stuff: socks, clothes, things to help me organize. This year, with buying a house and doing renovations, I literally asked my […]
Letting Go of Perfection: I’m a Hot Mess Mom, and I’m (Working on Being) Okay with That
I need to regularly remind myself that the things people often put on social media are their highlight reel. They’re not our full lives: the heartaches, the disappointments, the anxiety…. I need to remind myself of that, so I figured others might need this reminder too. There’s a reason that I say this blog is […]
More than Mom: How I Lost – and Found – Myself After Having Kids
They said kids change everything… you lose sleep over them, you cry over them, your schedule revolves around them and their needs, and somehow through it all, your heart grows with so much love. In the process, your world changes SO much. What I didn’t know, and didn’t quite expect, is just how much becoming […]
I’m More than Mom: Finding Ourselves After Baby
Before having my first child, I knew life as we knew it was totally going to change. But as much as I read all the pregnancy and parenting books, and joined a bunch of online mommy groups and read all sorts of advice… there was one thing I don’t think anyone could have prepared me […]