If I’m Not Happy Now, I’ll Never Be.
If I’m not happy now, I’ll never be. This sentence randomly popped into my head one evening, as I sat on my red sofa. It was that single notoriously chaotic hour before putting the...
If I’m not happy now, I’ll never be. This sentence randomly popped into my head one evening, as I sat on my red sofa. It was that single notoriously chaotic hour before putting the...
Her face grips me and she’s not six years old, but two. She’s only a toddler baby, and her expression is exactly the same as in this one right now—this older moment—but both are...
Am I supposed to apologize for having a good husband and a great father for my kids? Sometimes it feels that way. Recently I wrote an article about things moms should do for themselves,...
Next week my oldest child turns six. The week after, she starts full-day school for the first time. She’ll eat lunch without me, for the first time. We’ll be apart for longer than we’ve...
I wanted to “have it all together” before I had kids. I wanted to overcome my eating disorder (and I did). I wanted to learn how to love myself. I wanted to finish college....
Motherhood and the art of self-care: I had a really challenging week. But the thing about being a mom is that we have to keep pushing forward. Life with kids is full and chaotic,...
Teaching my kids that having a bad day isn’t the same as having a bad life: My main career right now is being a mom. My other career is being a writer. This week...
Here’s a random list of things my two children, ages almost six and going on two, have said this morning, and it’s not even nine o’clock: 1. “I want a different shirt.” (Heard three...
This week has been one of the worst weeks of my life. I say that dramatically, and even as it really feels like this in places of my body that hurt, like my neck...
Let’s be honest. Motherhood is an enlightening, fantastic, humbling experience, but it looks nothing like Pinterest (which I’m not even on, by the way, because that sh*t would bug me). It looks like this:...