Marriage Isn’t Over After Kids.
After the kids go to bed, it’s our only real time together. We pry our own sleepy eyes open and hold hands while watching TV. We make love when we’re exhausted, because it’s our...
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75 Things I’m Doing While My Kids Still Think I’m Cool.
My kids—gloriously, wondrously, delightfully—think I’m cool. I dyed my hair blue nearly a year ago, and recently I transitioned it to purple. My 6-year-old wasn’t annoyed or embarrassed, like maybe she could have been...
8 Truths of Being a New Parent.
I’m eternally grateful for my ignorance about motherhood before having kids. I naively thought, like everyone else I know, that parenthood was much different than it actually is, or that I was somehow exempt from...
The Kissing Experiment.
Marriage these days is a much discussed tradition. There are those who prefer to not partake in it, although this doesn’t necessarily mean not co-existing in a life-long relationship. There are those, too, who...
5 Tips: Can Your Relationship Survive Without Sex?
I wanted to call this article something “mature” yet catchy, like “When Sex Can’t Be the Band-Aid.” My husband, however, suggested “From Ballin’ to Crawlin:’ Can Your Relationship Survive Without Sex?” Because, the thing...
Walking in Her Shoes: Why Different Parenting Styles Is Something to Celebrate.
I was just telling a friend that I’m more opinionated about judgmental parents than I am about parenting styles. It seems that lately I come across two handfuls of articles a day on what to...
A Love Note to the Traditional Grown-up.
I’m sitting here writing this with a baby nursing in my lap. I am no stranger to exposed breasts. I am no stranger, either, to the excitement and curiosity of new people and places...
What Our Daughters Want Us to Know.
His hand moves down the back of my neck. I feel his caress linger in places that make my skin jump as his palm trails down my side. Momentarily, I’m more inside of my body—feeling...
Debunking 14 Labor, Delivery & Early Parenthood Myths & Fears.
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby...
She Will Always Be My Baby.
Her heart spills sunshine from every nook and cranny. She is the epitome of love—the fabled girl with a golden heart, filled with beauty and, more importantly, a well of true kindness. She sings...
