Category: Motherhood

Recently I was at a party with a large number of women with babies and toddlers.  (Okay it was a two-year-old birthday party.) But many of the women

Within 24 hours of having my first baby I knew I was not the same person as I had been the day before.  I can’t totally explain it,

It’s mom’s week. (I like to stretch it out.) In honor of mothers everywhere I am writing a note to those sometimes miraculous but also PESKY, IRRATIONAL, and

I ’ve had my ears pierced since I was three years old. So for me, ear-piercing and earring wearing was never a rite of passage. It was simply put,

Before I had kids I was an expert at checking in with myself to ascertain what I really felt or knew about whatever was happening, regardless of what

It was actually the first time I had ever used it! I mean not a lawn mower in general—but ours. Likely it’s like this in your house too,

Occasionally my mother in law says things that are mind-altering to me. She’s been a preschool teacher her whole adult life so she understands things about tiny ones

One of the first lessons I learned as a mother is to do everything in tiny increments of time. I’m eternally grateful for a woman (I don’t even

It’s my husband and I’s anniversary week.  I always like to write about him and I, especially at this time of year, it’s just so fun to reminisce.

Something wonderful has been happening to me lately: two things actually. I’ve been having these moments during the regular course of my days where I remember to tap