What I’m streaming and why.
I don’t get a lot of TV time in. In fact I don’t get a lot of “me” time in at all these days. Being a working single mom to an 8 year old daughter with a full calendar keeps…
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Back to school advice for my third grader
We are exactly one week away from back to school. This year Molly is heading into grade 3. Wow. Every time I say that (or type it) I can’t quite wrap my head around it. Grade 3. Last year she…
Giving Thanks To Our Registered Nurses – One Mother’s Personal Story
One of the most helpless, and often terrifying, feelings a parent can have is having a sick child. All you want to do is help them. To make them feel better and take their pain away. You’d gladly take in…
Find Your Village Before You Need It
Expectant moms, or women who are thinking about starting a family, get a lot of advice. Some of it useful. Plenty of it not. Most of it is given with good intent, whether it helps or not. But the one…
There’s No Place Like Mom
This one is for the moms. To each and every one of you. I want to tell you that you are amazing AF. You make the world a better place and you are raising kids that are going to make…
He does what?? The day my daughter made me tell her about SEX.
My daughter is an exceptionally bright and articulate almost 8 year old. And she, like all kids, seems to have a never ending supply of questions to throw my way. I generally do a pretty good job (I think) of…
Diets and daughters. We need to do better.
It feels like every second person I know is on a diet. Actually let me correct that – every second woman I know is on a diet. Keto, Paleo, Raw Food, Alkaline – and the list goes on and on….
I’m not an adult but I play one in real life.
Dear Toy Making People, Can you please just say ‘assembly required’? Because when you say ‘ADULT assembly required’ and I can’t figure it out and need to call someone, it makes me feel like a failure as an adult. K,…
Keeping up with the fashion whims of a seven year old with Joe Fresh
It’s a girl! And she has opinions! When I was pregnant with my first and only child my husband and I decided we didn’t want to know ahead of time if we were having a boy or a girl. We…
Yes I take my child to nice restaurants. No I don’t care if you approve.
“I’ll have the sirloin and a glass of chardonnay.” The waitress wears a look that is equal parts amused and bewildered. She looks at my husband and I for guidance. It’s obvious she’s never had a five year old place…
I took the Power of OxiClean Challenge and you can too! (Review and Giveaway)
Then and now I use to have a clean house. And a white leather sofa. I could leave the house without having to do a “sticker check” to ensure none were stuck to the seat of my pants. If you…
My birth story. 90% natural. What do I win?
May of 2010. My daughter (although I didn’t yet know she was a she) was due on the 22nd. Apparently she wasn’t quite ready to vacate the premises just yet. I had taken my leave from work about 5 days…
Dear keyboard psychiatrist – Pills can help. Words can hurt.
Two years ago when my then four year old daughter was quite sick and in the hospital we were getting ready to leave, without a diagnosis or any sort of real plan to help her, but with an offer for…
Formula Feeding 101
It doesn’t matter what your personal views on breast/formula feeding is, the fact is that we are exceedingly lucky to live in a time where we have a safe, nutritional alternative to breast feeding that babies can and do thrive…
The first weeks – It’s ok to hate being a mom.
My first days, even weeks, of being a new mom are a blur to me. And not a good blur. Not like you are on a roller coaster, and love roller coasters. Like you are on a roller coaster and…