There’s a vicious beast when it comes to parenting. It swarms and takes over households and wreaks havoc. It’s dirty, stinky and smelly for most. I prefer to roll around in it, bless it, work with it, train it,...
Seeing a counselor shouldn't be a dirty secret.
I've always been an anxious and nervous person. Since I can remember, whether it was playing sports in school, having a test coming up, job interviews, hanging out with new people- all...
When I got pregnant, three months after losing a baby to miscarriage, I had never heard the term "rainbow baby." And when it came time to come up with something to call that little spark growing inside of me,...
Being induced was not on my radar with baby number two. My first baby was a whirlwind, basically every miserable side effect of being pregnant, I had. Not to mention, I swore I was in labor four times before I...
As a mom, I am incredibly grateful for the abundance of resources we have available to us. We have websites and local groups in which we can share our stories and relate to one another. But, what about Dad?...
My last baby. As my youngest child approaches her second birthday, I find myself getting increasingly emotional.
You see, I have three children. Boy Child was born two weeks short of Big Girl's second birthday. Then, when Boy Child was...
For the first three years of my daughter's life, I was a working, single mom. Life was hard, busy and beautiful. However, I learned quickly that only having one set of hands to take care of the chores just wasn't...
Before having children, I shuttered at the image of kid’s ‘stuff’ spread throughout the house. One-use baby accessories, musical toys playing the same three melodies over and over, burp cloths stained with spit-up thrown on the backs of furniture, snack...
Fellow mamas! Let me let you in on a little secret: school lunches are flipping expensive! We are ballin' on a budget over here in our house, and there is no way we could afford our child to eat...