If You Give Your Child a Banana
If you give your child a banana, chances are that someday soon they will ask for another. If your child is preferential to consistency, like mine, their daily banana will...
6 Keys To Hating Winter Less
Winter. It’s what this great state of Minnesota is famous for—the long, cold, snowy, stay-in-your-house-kind-of-frigid days of winter. When my daughter was about 3.5 years old, she walked out into...
A Child’s Pace: Keeping Up while Slowing Down
What goes fast, but needs you to slow down? Yesterday I managed to get my children fed, dressed and out the door by 8:30am! This may not seem like a...
First Trimester Isolation
by Maureen Zhao
One of the most beautiful times of many women’s lives has turned out to be the most isolating time in mine. The first trimester of pregnancy. Pregnancy is supposed to...
Me In the Margins
by Amber Harder
I’ve come across so many great articles recently about how important it is to take “me” time as a mom. Can I be honest? I don’t know how people do...
I’m Okay with Not Being First
by Cari Dugan
My husband and I have four sweet children. We adopted our youngest, domestically, 18 months ago. She is the light of our home, we all are enamored with her sweet...
2018: The Year of Dumb Goals
{Photo credit: Haley Powers} Welcome to 2018! It’s a new year, and with it comes new goals and ambitions. While New Year’s resolutions are a bit cliché, I like them because...
Postpartum Hair Loss & Bed Sweats
What in the… You guys. This is no joke. There are so many things. So many things you get told about what to expect for your postpartum recovery. The depression,...
Feel Better, Do Better: A Health and Wellness Pep-Talk for Moms {Part 3}
Real talk, ya’ll. As moms, we all know that after giving birth to our children, certain parts of our bodies are just never the same. Let’s get it out there that...
What I Learned When My Kid Had Surgery
When a suspicious lump started growing on my daughter’s eyelid, we immediately consulted Dr. Google. In our professional expertise, we diagnosed her with “probably just a stye or something” and...
I Survived the Terrible Twos
by Kate Awsumb
[And all I got was this stupid threenager? No seriously – this is not the time to tell me how bad three is. There’ll be time for that later. Plenty...
Strong, Not Skinny
The mantra “strong is the new skinny” has been gaining currency online for some time now. It signals a move away from “thinness” in favor of a more achievable “real”...
An Open Letter to My Mom
Dear Mom, I know that my late teen and early adult years were not the highlight of our mother-daughter relationship. So many pages in my early journals are filled with...
Letting Go of Picture Perfect
In this age of Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, and a million photo apps with fun filters, many of us are trying to make each picture… perfect. I am always trying to...
