Encouragement

I live my life, very purposely, "out loud" and in public through my social media accounts. Contrary to my husband who is very private. Contrary to what would be easier in many regards. But it's me. It's always been...

Dear Momma, I see you and that beautiful baby you just brought into the world. Yours really is one of the cutest newborns I’ve ever laid eyes on. Trust me when I say, you’re a natural! You were born for...

I tried to do it quietly ... have a panic attack, that is. I was standing in the kitchen while my husband was trying to console our overly tired 4-month-old. I couldn’t let him see me fall apart again,...

My family has experienced quite a bit of loss over the past few weeks. With each death, came precious opportunities for me to speak to my children about growing old and the inevitable. While it’s not the easiest topic...

As a stay-at-home-mom, I often get asked if I scramble to get my cleaning done when the kids are sleeping. And honestly, when the girls were babies taking multiple naps each day, that’s exactly what I would do. I’d...

As moms, we tend to alternate between two mindsets: wanting our children to grow up and gain independence, and wanting them to stay little and innocent forever. For the last few years, my mindset has been pretty stuck in...

I am a naturally empathetic person. It comes so truly, purely, 100% naturally to me. When I was a young child, my mom and I were eating at Piccadilly, and I became tearful thinking of the middle-aged adults working...

It's yet another Sunday morning of getting the kids out of the house on time without my husband. He's playing music this week and has left the house a good two hours before us.  The icing on the cake is...

I’m not sure if it’s my empathetic nature or the fact that I have lived as a natural-born peacekeeper all of my life - but I have a tendency to “own” feelings that don’t belong to me. As mothers and...

In the summer of 2017, I decided it was {past} time to prioritize my health when my back went out ... and went out again. My baby was a year old, and I struggled with recovery following her birth...