For When She Wakes…She Will Lead?

You know, looking back, I never really saw myself having children. Perhaps it was because I was always told by doctors that I would never be able to have children or maybe it was because I was frightened of bringing a kid into this crazy world we live in. And the times I did think…

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Guest Blog: View From a 10 Year Old

Natalie has always been super curious about my blog. She frequently asks me to read them to her and is always curious as to what I’m working on. So when I approached her about writing a “guest blog” she was beside herself. She kept asking me what she should write about but I refused to…

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Reasons my Toddler Has Hated Me This Week

We are only a week into the “Treacherous Threes,” as my 10 year old step-daughter calls it, but I am already feeling the shift from what I thought was the “Worst it can get 2’s” to “It will get worse 3’s.” Talk about walking on eggshells, I can’t do anything without totally ticking Arabella off…

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How to Have Your Sh*t Together 100% of the Time

You can’t. I know what you’re thinking…what a buzzkill. Why would I drag you to my blog just to tell you that you actually won’t ever have your shit together? There is some good news, here, so I encourage you to read on. I recently had someone say to me, “Your life seems so perfect…

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Who Said Parenting Was Easy?

How many of you headed into parenting with blinders on? I did. Moms/Dads how many of you played ‘house’ when you were little? I’m not sure about you, but my babies were sooo easy to take care of when I was young. And those ‘egg babies’ we had in middle school? Pfffft, what kind of…

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