3 Tips: How to Let Our Children Go.
I realize that I’m one of the lucky mothers who has the ability to send her daughter on the school bus or drive her myself. I know, too, that I’m fortunate that she is...
Author: Jennifer
How to Solve Every Problem in the World.
As a non-married, but not single, individual, I felt strongly, both internally and externally, the pull to marry and have children. I wanted children—badly. Today, I’m married—to the man I’ve loved since we...
8 Lifehacks: How to Stay Sane with Sick Kids at Home.
School is officially back in session. How do I know? My five year old is sitting in front of the T.V. on a gorgeous day—sick. So what’s a mom to do, when the kids are...
10 Lifehacks Every New Mom Needs to Know.
Every mother out there looks back at how she thought she would parent, before she actually became one—and then laughs her butt off. The following are lifehacks that all new moms should be taking advantage...
UPDATE : BOOK RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT! The Art of Parenting: Love Letters from a Mother is Here!
The Art of Parenting: Love Letters from a Mother is here—and now available at Barnes and Noble! This book has been such a heart-work for so long that I cannot believe its release...
My Five Year Old Experienced Peer Pressure and This Was My Take-Away.
I asked my five year old yesterday why she didn’t eat her snack at school. The “none” box was highlighted next to how much she had eaten. She told me because of the other...
How to Grow Sunshine.
The house is quiet and the day is ready to be anything that I make it. I look out the large picture window in front of where I sit typing and notice how today...
How I Made Friends with Food.
We can’t outrun our diets—for a long time I didn’t want this statement to be true. But it is. We absolutely cannot outrun our diets. But what can we do? I’ve written before about how...
Why Being a Good Mom Is a Choice.
Sometimes motherhood feels like punching a time card. To be fair, I only vividly remember doing this at one job. It was my first job, where I worked as a seamstress, and we had...
Why Baby Milestones Are Overrated.
On rushing our children through life… A dawning sunny day and the trees outside the window where I sit writing glow orange in places from where its rising hits a few branches just right....
