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Claire is a thirty-something-year-old mother to the most amazing boy and his four-legged, furry brother. She’s a working mom who is married to a guy who lives in a suit and is truly the best dad. Claire spends too much time in the kitchen (thanks, food allergies), where she’s always trying to recreate new versions of her favorite childhood recipes. She discovered her love for reading and writing later in life (sadly, after college). When Claire is not working on The Basic Moms posts, she is busy writing away for the crafting niche, which makes her Pinterest-loving heart happy. Claire is a lifelong Arizonan, and even with the crazy heat and scorpions, you can usually catch her spending family time outside.
When Sex/Life came out on Netflix last year, we read B.B. Easton’s 44 Chapters About 4 Men books over in our Mom Chat – by The Basic Moms group book club style. I immediately fell in love with her writing style, and her struggles with parenting and relationships were all too relatable, which left me…
Holy crap. Less than ten days until Christmas. Where did that come from?? Thank goodness for Amazon Prime and virtual gifts! Here are some goodies I would love to get, plus some I love so much that I’ll be gifting them to others. Hope you love this holiday gift guide! Here’s my top 10 picks…
You know that feeling where it seems everyone around you is going crazy over some new product, and you’re just sitting there like, meh? Well, that’s how I feel about my Instant Pot, and I feel like I’m the only person in the world who feels that way. Now, I don’t hate my Instant Pot,…
Ah, the Rachel Hollis video mess. I’m sure you’ve heard of it by now. Hopefully, you even had a chance to watch it because the original Rachel Hollis video and apology video were taken down earlier this week. We all know Rachel Hollis from her first book, Girl, Wash Your Face. I read it with…
I follow the royal family. Like any group of celebrities, I have my favorites, and I have the ones I don’t particularly care for. I’ve read many books on the royal family, from the modern royals to the royals from centuries ago. I’ve seen many documentaries on British history in general. You could say it’s…
My 32nd birthday is quickly approaching, which has me reflecting on life in my thirties the past couple of years. Now, with only turning 32, a large part of my thirties has been lived through this coronavirus pandemic, which means way less in-person events, a couple of school shutdowns, more Zoom calls than I could…
I’m not here to get political. I’m not telling anyone who I voted for and I’m not assigning blame to a specific person or group of people. I am here to tell you we don’t have to live like this. I am also here to tell you that it’s okay to have different beliefs than…
2020 was quite the year! Our contributors really knocked the content out of the park! In a year that was unlike any other, they offered support, humor, crafting and educational ideas, and – basically – exactly what every mom needed to get through it! We love ALL of our contributors and we love to shower…
We’ve all seen those memes about how significant historical figures wrote or discovered amazing things during the pandemics of their time and how we all need to do something great during this pandemic. Most of us don’t have time for that with working from home while making sure our kids are schooled by us, virtually,…
Can we talk social media for a second? More specifically, all the arguing, name calling, actually threatening someone (which depending on your state, you may face some sort of punishment). In the words of Taylor Swift, “why you gotta be so mean”? Being a 9 on the enneagram, watching all this unfold all over my…