Parenting Wisdom

Seven years, 84 months, 2,555 days, 61,320 hours, 3,679,200 minutes and 220,752,000 seconds – this is exactly how long I have been a mother (but who’s counting?). With a resume like this, I should have all the confidence in...

Birthday party season in our family is upon us.  Our family has a disproportionately high number of tiny friends born in the same two month period.  As such, we are invited to many fun toddler and preschooler parties back...

One of my favorite things to say about this parenting gig is: "this wasn't in the parenting book!!" In honor of all the twists and turns that come along with parenting, here are a few chapters that would have...

Life with newborn twins is overwhelming.  I still maintain that I have little-to-no memories of that first year; it was all survival. I’ve compiled a list of the products that made that survival possible. (Honorable mentions: coffee, coffee, coffee). Gear 1....

Seven years ago I had just gotten pregnant, I had a tiny bulldog puppy, and I was so excited about all of the change that was coming. I had no idea that growing in my uterus was a being...

A fellow mom recently asked, “Does it get better?” She asked this in reference to raising little ones. On this particular night, she was fixing dinner as she watched her toddler empty the contents of a dustpan and her brother’s...

Ok. Confession time. Deep breath. Here goes.  I'm having an affair. I'm cheating on . . . my son. With my daughter. Hear me out.  For the first three years of his life, my son and I were about as close as...

Mommy, wife, daughter, sister, friend...we all wear so many hats everyday and they all require us to give ourselves to someone else. From keeping our littles alive to giving our besties advice, at the end of the day we are left with nothing more to give, especially to ourselves. Like so...

Photo by Dan Burton on Unsplash Emotional labor, invisible labor, mental load - the terms might be new, but they are putting a name to something that is familiar to a lot of women. These concepts refer to all of the stuff that...

I do not understand why we tell newly-pregnant women not to tell anyone they're pregnant until after the first trimester. The reason most often given is because the risk of miscarriage is so high. Is it just me or...