Sarah
Sarah is a Cecilia native currently living in Lafayette's oil center. She's the mom to a Brady Bunch of 7 children ages 13 to 5. Married to Clint, her 'environmental superhero', they enjoy traveling often. The self-proclaimed queen of big family travel planning; she's also taken up GLAMPing as she explores the State and National Parks as part of their year of road schooling. Sarah started Real Product Talk, a product testing and secret shopper service, with her online bestie of 10+ years in 2014 and continues to grow as a major player in her field. When she's not working from home, she's can be found serving the less fortunate in Lafayette alongside Lafayette Mom Writer Ali Comeaux and their non-profit, With Love, Acadiana.
Yes Days :: Growing Up
When we started having "Yes Day!" instead of birthday parties a few years ago, the children stuck to the list we'd created for them. There was a whole year or two of Trampoline Parks,...
Feed Them Anyway
Just over a year ago, I joined a friend who periodically went and fed the needy here in Lafayette. She had been doing so quietly for a year before that, at the prompt of...
Dear Vanessa Bryant, I Hope Your Tribe is Holding You Tight
Dear Vanessa Bryant,
You don’t know me and I don’t know you. It’s unlikely we will ever cross paths. Truly, I don’t even know anything about you aside from what I've read today in the...
The 1 to 10 Rule For Marriage
My husband and I have stumbled on a way of problem-solving that has revolutionized the way we fight... or don't fight, actually.
In the very early stages of our dating relationship, I was determined to...
Watch Your Tone
Moms are passionate. We pick sides and we advocate for them: circumcision, vaccination, co-sleeping, self-soothing, extended rear-facing, helicopter parenting... the list goes on and on. We choose our sides, we feel good about them,...
Zone Cleaning – Everyone Helps
I think many of us have been there: it's time for bed but the house is a disaster area. Maybe we spend another hour picking up so we can wake up to less chaos...
Read To Them :: Who, What, When, Where, Why
Who should you be reading to?
Research shows there are benefits of reading to babies even still in the womb. Babies as young as 25-26 weeks of gestation have been shown to respond to sound....
Misophonia and The Dinner Time Blues
I always imagined myself with my little (okay, large) family eating dinner together and talking about our days. I had this perfect idea of what it would be like with laughs and confessions of...
Don’t Quit During Transition
During natural labor when a woman reaches the transition phase, she often feels emotionally ready to give in and expresses a desire to quit. I know for all five of my births, the transition...
I Don’t Have Full Custody, But It’s Not What You Think
When you hear that a mom is not the custodial parent of her child(ren), what comes to mind? For me it's whispers of "I heard she lost her kids." "A judge took them away,...