Although this meeting is planned it feels like suddenly I’ve found myself sitting at this table with some amazing young moms from different walks of life writing mom blogs with them. Does this make me an influencer? What?? I have no...
Live music is the best. Fight me. Seriously though, there's nothing better than live music. I've been known to drive 6 hours, one way, see a show and then drive home the same day. I'm a bit nutty when...
“Are you going to have another baby?” I get the question almost daily. My quick response is usually a half hesitant “no.” So, I guess my question is, How do mamas decide they are done having babies?
I know this...
Have your mom friends been totally honest with you about being a parent? I'm not talking about the fun stuff like holding your newborn for the first time; watching him/her smile at you (for real) for the first time;...
For 12 of our 15 years of marriage, we have lived away from our families. At first it wasn't by choice. My husband was accepted into medical school in Des Moines, Iowa so to Iowa we went. Next came...
I've always had a desire to adopt, but I could have never imagined that desire would turn into reality and one day I would feel so passionately about National Adoption Awareness Month.
Not only does our family kick off the...
“May I have a quad shot of espresso in a Venti cold cup with 4 pumps of sugar free vanilla, 4 stevia, a very light splash of half and half, a venti scoop of ice, double blended & double...
Why did no one prepare me for the dentist as an adult?! Maybe there are guides out there and I just didn’t take the initiative to look them up and prepare. But I mean COME ON, where are the...
Motherhood and Mom guilt go hand-in-hand. Am I right? You can't have one without the other. When you become a Mom you're filled with overwhelming feelings of gratitude and thankfulness for being blessed with this life, but the Mom...
Am I crazy? I know it is not even Halloween yet but I am already super jazzed about Christmas, yes I said “jazzed” I say things like that sometimes, get over it. The cookies, the festivities, the lights, the...
You know how sometimes something happens and it seems so far fetched, so impossible that you swear you have to be dreaming? Or that you're watching some wild Lifetime movie? That is how I felt on January 6, 2008,...
The third Thursday in October is National Get Smart About Credit Day. Super exciting stuff, right?! Maybe to those of us that get super nerdy about money and numbers. But to most people, credit is a big, bad, scary...
I will never forget the words the doctor said –
“I’m so sorry, we can’t find a heartbeat.”
I was 8 weeks pregnant with our first child and having my first prenatal appointment. The doctors estimated that our fetus had stopped...
Have you considered getting the breast cancer tests? I am not talking about mammograms. You know the tests I'm talking about - BRCA1 and BRCA2. Those are some pretty scary letters. When you think of the testing that those...