I knew the day would come when my kid would go off into the world on her own. It’s my job to prepare her for it. The problem is, there’s no one out there to prepare me for it. Given that she’s 15 years old, I thought I had a…
So why we aren’t talking about depression after weaning? After a year of successful breastfeeding, my son just decided it was time to stop. It was as if he woke up one morning and just decided breast milk was no longer his nipple of tea. I experienced the usual…
If you’re a name nerd like me you just LOVE this time of year. This is when the social security administration releases their list of top baby names for both the country and for each state. On the girl’s side, Mia dropped a lot and Aubree jumped up to 15–that’s…
As a parent, I function on 45% instinct, 25% experience, 20% advice, and about 10% flying by the seat of my pants. I am not an expert by any stretch and my kids are only 4 and 6 years old. I’m still in the newlywed phase of parenting! Please understand…
It’s been a year since we announced our next baby would be a boy. My husband’s fourth & my third boy in a row. We’d found out several days earlier, but I was so upset I cried for three days straight and wouldn’t even look at anything boy themed. Gender…
It seems like the new trend is getting back to nature. People are eating paleo and birthing naturally and living minimally. It’s all about being more basic these days. I am not a minimalist by any means. In my mind I would like to be but in reality I am…
Each year for our birthdays, my siblings and I were very disappointed to receive a card and an orange piece of paper from my grandparents. We would hand the orange piece of paper over to my dad, never to be seen again and it didn’t feel like much of a…
“Mom, EVERYONE is wearing these! I NEED it” “That shirt is WAY inappropriate. There is NO WAY you are wearing that” “I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU THINK! You just want me to be a baby FOREVER” I happened to catch this interaction between a 13-year-old and her mother at Forever…
Some people are just blessed with a creative gene–you never know what unique thing they’re going to come up with next. My cousin’s wife Sarah is one of those people and I’ve written about her on this site before because everything she does is just so dang cute! Her son…
Hi, Other Mom. My name is Amy. I’m a mother of 2, an educator, a wife, and another human being. And today, walking out of a big box store, you made eye contact with me and you judged my daughter in hushed tones. And I stared you down, which you…