Recently a friend of mine told me that I seem in person just like I seem on the blog—purposeful. Together. Within seconds I was spouting off all the things I am NOT excelling at right now, and I thought it only made sense to share them here! I have lost track of the last time I bathed the …
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He was looking down at the ipad when he said it. A nonchalant "Just don't talk about it." I don't think he even looked up. We were on a long drive—Ryan and I in the front of the minivan with our three kids strapped in behind us in the middle row. Trenton had a front row seat to our argument. And …
It came at the bottom of an email. One well-intended parting line that—I'm guessing—would make mothers everywhere cringe. I had emailed her in relation to another venture I'm pursuing. And even though I manage my apartment building, write a blog, and am starting another website, I still introduced …
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There are two of you doing this dance. This endless foxtrot of arranging who's taking the kids to school, waiting to see who will take out the trash first, and playing rock-paper-scissors to see who will do the bedtime routine that night. It is not exactly the romantic dance you imagined as a …
We joked that my first son was born angry. I spent hours in our pitch-black laundry room, rocking-swaying-bouncing him to the hum of the running dryer. As it turns out, he was just born hungry! Prior to Trenton's birth, breastfeeding was never a decision for me; it was a given. But I never really …
As a mom, I find myself saying a handful of things over and over. There are the usuals, like "Did you wash your hands?" and "Who had it first?" And there are the ones that would be slightly embarrassing if someone overheard, like number two on this list. Here are five that I've been hearing myself …
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