11 Reasons Why Having a Strong-Willed Child May Be the Best Thing That Ever...
As my son was approaching 3-years-old, I began to discover that his behavior was a little different from most children in our circle of friends. He was extremely emotional and had difficulty being...
View ArticleAn Apology Letter To My Second Child
My Dearest Second Child, As your arrival into this world got closer, I began making my rounds. I got together with aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, and anyone else I could think of to reminisce about...
View ArticleBack-To-School Pictures I Won’t Be Taking
I spotted an image of a “Back-to-School Check List” on Pinterest today. Very bad idea to type in “back to school” in the search box. Very. Bad. Idea. I almost choked up my afternoon highball (ok, it...
View ArticleThe First Day Of School: You Won’t Believe How Fast It Goes Now
I remember everything about that morning. The breakfast, the getting dressed in the tiny navy shorts and uniform polo, tying his shoes, packing his favorite lunch foods in the Blue’s Clue’s lunchbox....
View ArticleEverything I Lost After Having Children
Arguments – Before having kids, I would say that my husband was the only one I got into arguments with. You know, verbal back and forth where I was usually right. After I was declared the unspoken...
View ArticleA Confession To My Friends Who Don’t Yet Have Kids
As a child, anyone can be your friend. Even the mean ones. At the park, I watched my son go up to two girls and introduce himself as, “The Green Ninja.” They made some rude comment and ran away from...
View Article5 Things A Stay-At-Home-Mom Needs To Let Go
I first heard it once, then about a thousand times. “You have no right to complain because you get to stay home with your kids all the time!” Or, “I have missed so many milestones because I was...
View ArticleA Letter to Myself When My Kids Are Grown
Dear Me, Right now you are 32. When you tell most people your age they say, “You are so young.” And this would be true, but it is also the age you began to understand that life does move as fast as...
View ArticleSaturday Nights as a New Mom
I’m writing this on my phone while sitting in a parked car, in my garage, in total darkness. The baby fell asleep on the drive home (after screaming for 20 minutes), and I just need to sit and absorb...
View Article50 Things a Boy MUST Do
When I became pregnant for the first time, I prayed for a boy. Even though it really wouldn’t have mattered, I always envisioned having a son. And now I have two. I had many people tell me typical...
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I Am Trying To Remember Who I Am Besides “Mom”
I am writing this post from my breakfast table. It is quiet. The only thing I hear is a running dryer from the laundry room and the occasional yawn from a four pound Yorkie. That is it. This is...
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“Poor Mama”
I’ve been very tired recently. My six-month-old is teething and is up on and off throughout the night. He takes small catnaps throughout the day and it’s very difficult to accomplish anything. I have...
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I Have Overcome My Past to Become a Strong Mom
Where do I begin? My life has been a journey, and sometimes when I look back and remember everything I have been through I wonder, how did I end up here? I don’t mean that in a bad way at all, on the...
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I Want to Throw Myself into Traffic: An Essay on Being a Stay-at-Home Mom
Making the decision to quit my job and stay home full time with my kids was not one I entered into lightly. Part of my choice was based on the fact that I felt like I was missing out on all of the good...
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The Captain
Sometimes I’m lost at sea. The other day my son hit me for the first time. I used to say I felt bad for parents whose kids hit. Mine pulled his fist back, looked me straight in the eye, and punched my...
View ArticleTwo Kinds of Perfect
It’s around 3:30am and I am not asleep. I sort of slept standing up over a crib for a while I think, while my 6-month-old held onto my finger with a death grip that I couldn’t get out of and didn’t...
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Everything
I remember my first son lighting up as a baby when he saw me, but nothing like this. I guess I just forgot, but my 7-month-old son looks at me like I paint the sky. Like I am the answer to every...
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Run Away Mom
I had been training for months and it was finally time for the half marathon. My first night away from the baby and a much-needed night away from the demanding 4-year-old. My friend and I were doing...
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4 Things to Keep in Mind While Raising a Wild Child
The crib used to contain them, provide some sort of barrier between them and the ground. And then one day they get brave enough to climb over the “great wall,” open the door, and look at you in a whole...
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The Great Valley
I should consider myself lucky that I have lived 32 years knowing my grandmother. That before she passed away last week, she was able to live a life in which she met my children. That my 4-year-old was...
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Holidays are Completely Different Now That I’m a Mom
Holidays have certainly changed since having children. I remember when I was pregnant during Christmas thinking of how excited I was to feel the magic again. To live life vicariously through my...
View ArticleMaps
My 4-year-old son has developed quite the obsession with maps. He draws them constantly. To someone who doesn’t know him, they would just assume it’s squiggles on a piece of paper. Perhaps the...
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4 Reasons Boys are the Best & 1 Reason Girls are Better
I am a mother of two boys. No girls yet, so maybe I’m a little partial. If I was ever brave enough or drunk enough to decide to have another child, and that child was a girl, I’d be over the moon. But...
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Moms vs. The End of the School Year
How quickly another year has whizzed by, only to find us here, dangling from the proverbial school mother of the year tree branch, whimpering for a life boat, or at least an original lunchbox idea....
View ArticleTop 10 Ways to Give Your Kid a 1970’s Summer
It is officially the beginning of June. The Pinterest pages, Facebook feeds, and family magazine features are loaded up with all the activities you should do with your kid’s summer. AS. IF. As if we...
View ArticleHow to Cross a Rope Bridge
When my boys were sick last week, we spent some extra time in front of the TV. What I began to notice was that every children’s movie or show that my son picked out contained a similar scene. There was...
View ArticleGiving Your Kids a 1970’s Summer? This is What They Should Be Reading
With the surprising success of a little blog post I wrote about how I spent my summers as a child in the 1970’s, I figured I would ride the viral wave a bit longer, and simultaneously resurrect some...
View Article7 Ways Becoming a Mom Made Me More Like My Husband
I wouldn’t say I was an extreme girly girl before having two children, but I would say that I at least enjoyed wearing makeup, dressing up, and putting some jewelry on. Now I feel like I will have to...
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