This is a tough one to write… but I need to so that I can find a way to close this chapter and move forward. About three years ago, my husband and I adopted a dog. We had finally moved from an apartment to a house, and in my mind that instantly meant a dog… Read More The Hardest Parental Decision We’ve Had to Make…
When I was in high school I experimented with not eating. Or, at least eating just enough to maintain my thigh gap – which I discovered is an apple, a cup of coffee, and the occasional hot dog wrapped in lettuce. For the protein. While this phase of my life was relatively short lived, I… Read More The Mom Bod Struggle is Real… (but it came from my babies!)
I’ve recently seen a lot of posts from other moms expressing their concern for the world in which their children are growing-up. “What kind of world am I bringing my kids into?” “How can I keep them safe in a world like this?” “I fear for my children’s futures.” I am not denying that we… Read More Why I’m Not Afraid to Raise My Kids in this World
My post this week was initially titled “Mommy Masochism,” and was meant to explore all the unspoken hardships of raising a toddler AND a newborn. You see, in my experience, nobody talks about these very real struggles: the tantrums, the demands, the selective hearing and undermining of authority we moms experience when simultaneously trying to… Read More It’s All About the Ice, Baby
This might be a bit more of a soapbox post than I intended, but I do think this subject is important and something I’d like to address, both for me personally and for other fellow mothers. Mom shaming and judging is beyond prevalent in our mom world – especially that which exists in the online… Read More We’re All Gonna Be Alright: #momstrong
