You guys. Here I go, I’m going to be terminated from every Facebook Mom Group after this post. Maybe some of my Facebook friends will drop me after this too. If you’re a mom, chances are you belong to some sort of Support Group on Facebook (Moms of Newborns, Toddler Moms, Breastfeeding Moms, etc). Do…
As I sat in the living room, listening to my girls fight over a Mother’s Day gift they were working on in the next room over, I couldn’t help but feel like it was all for nothing. Here I was, not spending time with my children just so they could make sure I had a…
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…
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…
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…
My sweet little girl turns 1, one week from today. ONE! How is this possible? It feels like I just found out I was pregnant. The feelings are all too real – there I am standing in the bathroom wondering if what I’m seeing is real. Am I really pregnant? I feel like I’m going…
Raising kids is tough. There is no denying that. Whether you work inside or outside the home, being a parent is a full-time job and I would argue that it is one of the toughest jobs a person can have. I would also argue that there is one job that is even more difficult: being…
I was warned cautioned a couple times when I was pregnant that, although I was experiencing a period of very lovely hair, I would probably lose some hair post-partum. I brushed it off as an old wives tale and didn’t really think too much about it. Even after giving birth, I wasn’t experiencing any out…
