Raising kids is not easy, whether you have one, two, four, or six. I think most people would agree with that statement. My daughter is only three, but for a year or two, I’ve compared her to other kids...
At one point or another within our journey of motherhood, all of us have had questions. All of us have needed tips and tricks and wisdom to get through a certain season that was before us. All of us...
Single parenting? Where should we begin?
I have been a single parent for five years essentially but only two years per legal documents. This was not the path I would have ever chosen for myself or for my worst enemy. ...
My friends and I made a rule a long time ago that unless the kids were puking and unable to leave the house we wouldn’t let their sickies keep us from getting together.
The idea was that between all...
Do you remember the first time you picked up a crayon to color your first coloring book?
During that experience, you were staring at bold black lines. You might have scribbled all over the page with complete freedom. Eventually, you...
Gratitude.
It's a word I talk and think about often but sometimes I don't practice it as often as I should. Who has the time? Sometimes life gets hard and busy, and I struggle to remember how amazing my life...
The 4th Trimester…. If you’re anything like me (first-time mama over here) then before you were pregnant this may have been a completely foreign word to you. Everyone talks about the three trimesters in pregnancy but it wasn’t until...
Dear New Mamas,
I see you agonizing over every little decision for this little human and thinking "Am I already somehow messing this up?"
I remember, extremely vividly, driving myself mad after I had my son. My trigger, you ask? Breastfeeding....
My husband and I were ecstatic when we first learned that we were expecting our second child. It happened much quicker than the first time and meant that our kids would be about two years apart. As my pregnancy...
It's a random Tuesday in January (or April) in Northwest Ohio, and our kids are anxiously watching the morning news with their pajamas on inside out (yes, that's a thing) while you pace back-and-forth in the kitchen. The meteorologist...