Motherhood

2021 is going to be a BIG year of FIRSTs and LASTs for me (and my daughter). It’s her senior year and I am seriously NOT ready. I didn’t think I was going to be so emotional but when I took...

When I was a teen I had a pretty specific idea of what love and friendship were going to look like as an adult. I always thought that not only did you find your significant other that you would...

Just as every baby and mother are unique, every breastfeeding journey is unique. I know some mothers who had no trouble breastfeeding one child but had a difficult time with another. Some have smooth journeys for all of their...

Being a first-time mom and not having any clue what to pack for the hospital led me down a seemingly never-ending rabbit hole of blog posts. There were so many contradicting posts in relation to certain items.  So, while it’s...

I feel like someone else, some other mama, needs to hear this too... — If the moment is worthy enough for a photo, then don’t look at the picture and reduce it based on how you look — When our babies...

  Social media has told us that we need to have perfect bodies and perfect faces- at whatever cost necessary. Our natural is not enough- we need plumper lips, lashes, breasts, and cheeks (all of 'em). We need fillers and...

Over the last few years, I have developed some first day of Summer traditions for my two kids. They are not big or extravagant, just something fun to celebrate their hard work and kick off the long days of...

Mothers are so special to us. They literally sacrifice their bodies to bring us into the world. They nurture us, scold us when we do wrong, listen to us when we need a shoulder to cry on, and they...

I am tired all the time.  My sleep is restless.  I wake up and I’m already ready for a nap.  No amount of sleep is enough sleep.  All of these are phrases I used to describe how I had recently been feeling to...

I have these moments where I feel like I'm nostalgic for the "good ole' days," like.....you know, the 1990s. It seems like everywhere I turn I'm told that my kids are in terrible danger. "It's not like it was when...