Identity Crisis: On the 5th Anniversary of Becoming “Mom”
{Photo credit: Sarah Elizabeth Photography} In just a few days, we will celebrate my daughter’s fifth birthday while I will silently be celebrating the fifth anniversary of becoming “Mom.” This...
Help Wanted: I’m Solo Parenting for Six Weeks!
by Annie
I’m somewhere in the midst of six-ish weeks of parenting while my partner is out of the country for work. My kids are young, one is in child care and...
Preparing Your Toddler For Their New Sibling
Being a couple months away from the delivery of our second child, we’ve been working on prepping our toddler, Greyson, for his new baby brother. People often ask us, “Does...
Baby Sign is for Everyone!
“Ice cream. More. Please,” my toddler sleepily communicates to me in baby sign at 6 am. She hasn’t been awake for long, but she knows exactly what she wants. In fact, I almost...
6 Things No One Tells You About Being Prego
Hello 26 weeks! For those of you that can’t do math like me, that’s 6.5 months. I am feeling large and in charge! And although I am trying to enjoy...
If A Fashion Magazine Interviewed My Toddler
by Daci Platt
While reading the celebrity interview in the latest issue of Vogue, I had a bizarre thought: what would such an interview look like with my daughter, Rue? Rue is seven minutes...
Steel Trap: On Toddler Brains and Promises
“You know that one time a week ago when you said you’d buy every toy in the world if I would just eat everything on my plate? Well, I just ate everything...
Speak Up and Build Up
I have been a part of “mom culture” for about two years – and that’s two years enough to realize that mom culture can be competitive. Mom culture can be...
Raising Kids in a Gender Neutral Family
When I was pregnant with each of my children, everyone wanted to know whether the baby was a boy or a girl, including me and my husband. For some reason,...
The Two Things I’ve Learned in Two Years of Mommin’
by Kate Awsumb
{Photo credit: Markus Reinhardt on flickr (Creative Commons)} I’m pretty sure it’s mama-normal to obsessively pin birthday crepe-cake recipes and search for a helium source for a 3 ½-foot “2” balloon. I also think...
What’s New? How to Answer When the Answer is Nothing
by Kate Awsumb
{Photo credit: Chelsey Osborne Photography} Hi, my name is Kate, and I’m addicted to change. My husband and I missed the whole opposites-attract memo; he’s got the bug, too. In...
My First Week As A SAHM
Friday. Glorious, heavenly, delicious Friday. It was my first week as a stay-at-home-mom…or a SAHM for those that like to abbrev’ things. I spent the past nine years working in...
That One Time We Took Our Kids Out for Dinner
by Monica Hoss
I’ll admit that I am sharing this mostly so that I can remember what happens when going out to eat with two young kids. Next time the urge strikes, I’ll come back and...