No More Perfect Hosts
You know the drill. Your friends are coming over for dinner. After a day of cooking and cleaning and grocery shopping, you are running around the house, getting ready for...
Back Off My Happy Instagram Feed
Have you seen the 14 latest articles about how you’re supposed to “be real” on social media, that it’s all fake, and people are pretending all is perfect on Instagram?...
Life is Like a Box of Crayons
by Marielle
I have “hair” colored hair. Or at least that’s what my friend Amanda would call it. It’s like if they had to somehow make one universal “hair” colored crayon, that’s...
Let’s Hope She Stays Healthy: 7 Ways to Support Health and Confidence
Earlier this week, while enjoying a breakfast date with my 20-month-old son, a woman came over to us and commented on how cute he is. She continued to comment on...
Our First Vacation Away
by Michelle
Since adding “mom” to my repertoire of hat tricks almost 18 months ago, I can count the number of nights away I have spent away from my son on one...
The Truth About the Mom I Am Right Now
The truth about the mom I am right now is that what looks perfectly cohesive on the outside is actually a pieced together map for my own survival in motherhood....
Mommy Inmate: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Mom
a look • a demand • a request …a sentence to serve This drama is brought to you by a mother who believes that bed head, worn out leggings, old t’s...
When Will It Get Easier?
by Amber Harder
I find myself asking this question a lot these days. I’m the mom of a busy preschooler and an almost toddler who doesn’t like to sleep and I am TIRED....
Parenting and the Art of Pimple Popping
by Daci Platt
{Photo Credit: The Jadeite Shutter} I had a lot of feelings in the minutes after my daughter was born. Concern: Was she okay? (She was.) Curiosity: “If it’s not too much...
How to Entertain Your Kids Without Even Trying
by Tammie
It’s one of those moments frozen in my mommy memory bank: The time I realized my two-year old had just guzzled hummingbird juice straight from the feeder. I can still...
You Are A Good Mom (On Self-Kindness)
Photo credit: Anna Ligocki Photography “You are so careless,” I thought to myself as I cried. “Brian (my husband) doesn’t make any mistakes like this. You are always making mistakes...
Acupuncture Helped Treat My “Mom Guilt”
by Mandy Tadych
I admit it. I thought it would never happen to me. I’d never let myself feel guilty for doing things for myself just because I was a mom. Before having...
Wear Now: Flare Jeans
I hear a lot about the latest trends in fashion due to my fashion blog reading (…less reading, more looking at pictures…) and by following my (not-real-life-friends) friends on Instagram...
Up, Up, and Away (Again): How to be a Traveling Working Mom
As I sit in my seat on my 2.5 hour flight back home from a long week of work travel, I think of how happy I am to be going...
