Fun for Mom
Valentine’s Day Bars – Red Velvet Chocolate Chunk Bars
I love Valentine's Day more than any other holiday. Any holiday whose main dish is chocolate immediately pulls at my heartstrings. Naturally I wanted to find some Valentine's Day bars ideas and I stumbled upon this beauty. I've mad a few adjustments which made it...
50 of the Best Romantic Quotes
I'm a sucker quotes and even bigger sucker for romantic quotes. In high school I had a notebook that I wrote quotes in; it was primarily made up of break-up quotes but still they were romantic. You can use these in a love letter, a homemade card or, my personal...
New Year’s Eve Marshmallow Pops
New Years looks a little different this year doesn't it? Whether you're quarantined with your family or partying it up safely with friends nothing says bring on the New Year than these New Year's Even Marshmallow Pops! We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC...
Momming
How to road trip with a newborn this holiday season.
There are affiliate links in this blog post. My son's first Christmas was the worse Christmas I ever had. He was less than eight weeks old, nursing every hour and a half and I was far away from my family. I also was a novice breastfeeder and he had a terrible latch;...
Help me remember that I am still the woman you fell in love with.
Featured on Huffington Post Parents and Good News. You may not realize this, but I finish most days feeling like an emotional punching bag for our tween, a complete life-ruiner to our five-year-old because I made him clean up his Lego mess and a literal punching bag...
Letting go does not get any easier the older your child gets.
These two girls. In Kindergarten, the oldest one cried everyday until November. Sending her to school broke my heart but I had to stand strong for her. I couldn't show her that a little part of me would love for her to stay home with me always. It was so hard to not...
Health & Wellness
Mental Illness + a Pandemic
I sat in that examination room, tears streaming down my face, feeling so guilty that my brain was broken, so bad that I was one of those people. My doctor, who was this kind older man who wore bowties, looked at me and said, "This is not your fault. Your...
8 Tips for maintaining a positive work life balance while working from home
With more and more parents working from home than ever before, I've heard so many moms stress about how difficult it is to maintain that work life balance they may have found before. It's no question that working mothers have always had the difficult task of being the...
60 Plus Anxiety Quotes To Help You Get Through
Sometimes anxiety is so difficult to explain that the only thing that helps us express how we feel are quotes about anxiety. Whether you're looking for an uplifting quote to help calm your anxious thoughts or one that articulates how your anxiety makes you feel. I've...