Motherhood

September 16th is National Collect Rocks Day! As a kid I never liked playing outside and getting dirty with the rest of the kids. I preferred to stay inside and read a book. I did not have a clue about...

I was never the kind of person who dreamt of becoming a Mom. The thought of having a child of my own was one I rarely entertained, and when I married my husband in 2011 I had many other...

The phone call came in June, about 2 weeks after I had accepted a full time teaching job. We had been matched with a birth-mother in Virginia Beach, VA. She was due in September, about 6 weeks into the...

{This blog is part one of a series as Madi dives into her family's journey into growing their family. You can read more about their beautiful family over at Two Moms Are Better Than One.} I am in a family...

  November and December are times where we take stock of what we are thankful for in our lives. I am thankful for my friends. I am thankful for my friends and for all the friendships in my life. Friendship is...

We’ve all seen the morning and evening self-care routines on Instagram and TikTok and if you’re like me may have thought, “Who seriously has the time for that?” As a single parent and busy mom, I thought self-care was...

I absolutely can. not. believe that my little girl just turned ONE. My mom always told me that as you get older, time really begins to fly, but I would have to say this has been the fastest year yet. Being...

As soon as you have your first baby, the questions about when you'll have the second baby begin. Awe, how cute, when are you going to give him a sibling? How many more kids do you want to have? The further away...

National Best Friends Day is coming up on June 8th. A good way to celebrate is by checking in on your closest pals. Every mom usually has a group of mom friends they keep in touch with. Sometimes it can...

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...