I was eating out with my daughters recently when we noticed another mom with two little boys dressed in costumes: the little one Spiderman and his older brother a SWAT team member. Both were very committed to their characters...
My girl was four years old, and it was her first spring season of soccer. She had been watching her older sister play for a year, and so she was excited to now show off her own skills on...
Right now, I am deep in the trenches of motherhood. Right now, I have three small souls that require a lot. There are routines to manage, emotions to handle, and toys to clean up. So many toys everywhere. It's...
If you’ve not yet experienced it yourself, it’s likely you’ve watched this poolside scene go down. The sunscreen application meltdown.
The typical perpetrator includes a very wiggly toddler. Nearby, a stressed-appearing parent holds a tube of sunscreen. Soon they’re wrestling...
Today, my 2 year old had half of a granola bar for breakfast and then part of a cookie. I also let her cry for a few minutes in her room while I finished getting myself ready for the...
Just had my third nipple cut off and didn’t knock the doctor’s teeth out, so I call that a W. After birthing four pups, you’d think I’d be a champ in the med bed. Not so. Let me set...
Coming into motherhood really does look like a wrecking ball. It felt that way to me at first. Between the postpartum days, and the moments where you think you have things figured out, just to turn around and realize...
To be a best friend, to have a best friend, what does that actually mean?
As a mother, wife, career woman, do we still need a best friend? So much weight has always been attached to those two words....
I love cooking. I grew up helping in the kitchen because cooking was always a family activity. Over the years, I have come to see it as a form of therapy. I do a lot of my thinking while...
I am familiarizing myself with life's little wins.
I used to post all of those inspirational quotes like “Keep your head and heels high, but your standards higher!” Or another one was “Yesterday you said tomorrow.”
Go get ‘em, tiger. Am...