Lafayette Mom

Most of us probably played the game "Never Have I Ever" sometime in our younger days. Take turns going around the table, naming things you'd never done, trying to look cool, and maybe calling out questionable choices your friends...

My dad had a love for airplanes and flying. He had such a passion that he enlisted in the Air Force to be able to cultivate it. He was an air traffic controller for the Air Force and in...

Last school year, my husband and I decided that our oldest would switch over to a private school for first grade. After registering her at another local private school, something called me to tour another small school in our...

The History: The love of NOLA Mardi Gras runs deep within my family. To say we are invested in our love for the season is an understatement. When you are born into our family, you are most certainly gifted two...

Every year as Mardi Gras approaches, I start to think of what I can do during Lent to get to the best version of me.  I am Catholic so it’s always been a religious tradition for me, but I’ve...

My last baby just turned 1, and I am officially done breastfeeding. I would like to say I had been exercising that entire year, but nope. It was just too much. Three kids and feeding/pumping every so many hours...

In the end, there are three things that matter…… How much you loved. How gently you lived. How gracefully you let go of the things that were not meant for you. Of the three, the one I struggle with, is the last one....

Dear Bestie VonBesterson, Congratulations! You’re having a baby!  You have officially embarked on one of the greatest adventures this life has to offer: motherhood. I am over the moon that we are able to be in this season of life together!...

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 one of her children. I...

One word that can throw any mom into panic mode, VA-CA-TION. For some reason, vacation for moms is always less of a vacation and more of a week-long chore that you will need a vacation from when you get...