What we’re reading… The Husband’s Secret on Audible I’m loving this read. I’m not finished reading/listening to it yet, but it’s so good so far. There are a few different storylines, but each has a secret they are trying to figure out that their husband is keeping. They need to make it into a movie…
Category: Mommyhood
Advanced Maternal Age Beyond Pregnancy
Being an “Older” Mom I was born in December of 1972. I just turned 46 and I am the “older mom” of a 7 and 11 year old. Now you know how old I am. Write it down if you want to remember, because you’ll never again see me reveal my age. Why? Because although…
Lessons Learned: When Your Baby Gets Sick for the 1st Time
I don’t know about you, but when I get sick I am a big fat baby and want no one else but my mom. So what happens when you ARE the mom and have no clue how to help your sick child? Until a few weeks ago, I didn’t know. I’m grateful my kid finally…
My Home Birth Story, Part 2: Birth
When you think about the birth of your children, would you describe labor as peaceful, relaxing, or comfortable? What about words like traumatic, excruciating, or intense? Did you go into labor scared or anxious? Or brave and confident? When I asked fellow moms to describe their birth and labor in a few words they used…
A Stay-At-Home Mom’s Christmas Wish List
Dear Santa, I’ve been a very good stay-at-home mom this year. I’ve packed all the lunches, washed and folded all of the laundry, prepared homemade dinners, bandaged cuts, kissed skinned knees, organized play dates, scrubbed toilets, made beds, found toys, food shopped on a budget, handled school pick-up and drop-off, scheduled all doctors appointments… and…
Plans Change: Making the Most Out of Life
A Special Needs Mom’s Perspective A friend recently told me she didn’t know how I did it. I looked at her kind of astonished, not knowing what to say. How do you answer that? How do you simply say, “I just try to survive every single day?” I wish that I could be her, you…
The Division Between Bitterness and Hope
“We’re going to adopt.” The words felt foreign coming out of my mouth and were mixed with tears. I was bitter, not that we were adopting, but that starting a family was so hard. Declaring our choice out loud seemed to be an admission that my body failed. We had been at a precipice for…
Daylight Saving Time Strikes Again
Fall is upon us and amid all the brown, yellow, rusty orange and pumpkin spice everything looms another seasonal tradition: Daylight Saving Time. Yep, you read that correctly, Daylight Saving Time, that time of year when it ends and we have to move the clocks (again) and deal with the aftermath. You either love it…
Small Town Living… and First Grade Mean Girls
In my post last month, “When Longing Becomes Reality,” I wrote about our family’s move from the Phoenix area to a small town along California’s Central Coast. Our little slice of Americana is rural and cute. It is so small that it is actually not even a town, but rather a “census designated area.”…
Busy Mom Friends List
The Best Kinds of Friends I’ve seen and shared the meme, which reads “A true friend is the one you can go months without talking to and when you reconnect nothing has changed.” Living in different areas of New Jersey and making friends with people from all over the state throughout my life, I’ve found…