Motherhood

Well, here we are, nursing.  Still. I have either been pregnant or breast-feeding someone for the past 7 years.  I have two kids.  I stopped nursing the first one when I was pregnant with the second.  It wasn't easy, it...

Happy Galentine’s Day ladies! We are seeing posts and messages for Galentine's & Valentine's everywhere. Though we should definitely celebrate all the kinds of love in our life, Gal-time is sacred. It is the time we have as mothers to...

If you’re in the marketing, design, advertising, or use the business side of Pinterest, you may have gotten an email earlier this year with a link to Pinterest Predictions. Now, if you aren’t part of this possibly niche group, let me...

Mom's deserve a few indulgences every now and then, don't you think? I love being a mom. But, sometimes as mothers, we give up simple everyday indulgences. To others, they may seem like little, trivial things. However, to moms,...

"When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan.  When a spouse loses his or her partner, they are called a widow or widower.  When parents lose their child, there isn't a word to describe them."  (Pres....

My mom and I don't always see eye to eye on a lot of things. I am sure that my point of view gets on her nerves, but we love each other. My mom has always done her best,...

One day #3 boy and I were at HEB in the produce section. He told me I was his 4th favorite. FOURTH. After whom? He said "I love Jesus first, 'cause you hafta.  Then Dad,  then Benjamin Franklin.  Then you." Blink blink. I'm very happy...

It was so easy being a mama of two boys, until they hit their terribles together. Boy #1 started the terribles at age 3 and boy #2 started at age 2. They are 22 months apart, and at that...

As a new mom, when I found out I was pregnant with my son in 2013, I wanted to experience it all. I wanted to do everything by the book and take all the advice I could get. One of...

​​ A Down Syndrome Parent Reflects on the poem, “Welcome to Holland” I didn’t expect to hear from my obstetrician so soon after my routine 15-week prenatal blood tests. She told me my labs showed a 99% chance that the...