Mid-Michigan Moms

I love my kids, enjoy my workouts, get energy from my job, and really love to travel. But doing all these things {and well!} while also running a household is difficult. I have come to terms with the fact...

I don’t know exactly how it happened. Maybe it was in college when I would walk by the stand of brochures of things to do in the area. Or maybe it was when I moved to a new city...

Support local! That’s what we’ve been trying to do during this pandemic. We've been supporting local businesses who have had to shut their doors and risk their future all for our safety. The last local business we visited may have...

I was 22 years old when I first heard of Flag Day. I learned about Flag Day from my then-boyfriend. We were playing the get to know you game—What’s your favorite color? When’s your birthday? Oddly, we both had...

As a part of my online workout community, I was asked to complete a mini-challenge: Tell me 10 things you love about yourself. Simple, right?  Wrong. I stared at the blank screen and could not come up with anything. I...

When the coronavirus pandemic started setting in, impacting our daily lives, I pulled out an unused notebook and started chronicling it. I wrote down what was going on through my eyes as it played out so that one day my...

Isolation feeds my depression. Inside of it, I wallow and the emptiness drags me deeper and deeper into a hole of hopelessness and sorrow.  It is in that deep, dark place of loneliness, where I lose my every will to...

What is it about tacos that make them so delicious?? Spicy, fresh salsa, creamy avocado slices, or warm, tender tortillas? Perhaps the infinite combination of components that makes them the perfect meal for almost anyone!

If we've learned anything thus far in life, it is to never stop learning. Never stop learning how to do, to be, to feel, to think, to act, and to teach. While it is vastly important for us as adults and parents to teach and guide our children to be kind, inclusive, respectful, and empathetic citizens, it is also incredibly important for us to take a look in the mirror and within to ensure we are inclusive, kind, respectful, and empathetic citizens.