Encouragement

With a large extended family and heck, even a not so large family on my side, the holidays can get expensive quickly.  That doesn't appeal to me at all, and in fact, I've found it taints my view or the...

As parents, we want to make sure we are doing our very best to raise our children with a little bit of grace. What does this mean to me? I do not mean saying "Yes Ma'am" and "No Ma'am"...

There are so many parts of a woman's identity that tend to slip away from us as we are enveloped by the grind of motherhood. We no longer party like a rockstar. We don't talk to friends as often,...

“Did you hear what happened?” “I would never…” “How could she?” “Can you believe…?” “You didn’t hear this from me, but…” “I can trust you not to say anything, right?” Gossip: the age-old invasion of privacy through sharing knowledge for...

Don't let the title of this post make you think I don't try to feed him anything I consider healthy.  No, I have found alternatives that I sneak in.  But let's start at the beginning.  When I was pregnant with my first,...

Don’t you miss being young and naïve? When you were full of wonder and awe, ready to take on the day with child-like enthusiasm. When did that end for you? Can you remember the day you “grew up”? Was...

I remember the first time I heard the phrase "midlife crisis." I was in high school and my parents' friend had spent a fortune on a fancy new car within his first week of becoming an empty nester. "Well,...

Wow!! It’s hard to believe that we launched Lafayette Moms Blog ONE year ago today!! We have published over 400 posts written by local moms all across the Acadiana region from New Iberia to Carencro to Lafayette to Youngsville to...

We have all heard that saying "If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all" or my preferred version courtesy of one Ms. Clairee Belcher "If you don't have anything nice to say, come...

I am really into spirit animals. Though I'd like to say that I embody all the qualities of a tranquil swan, it's more realistic to stay that my spirit animal is a rabbit ... who drank too much coffee...