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Dear Santa, Merry Christmas! I know that it must be an incredibly busy time for you as you prepare to make dreams come true for 2 billion kids. It's a lot, I'd imagine. Add in all the mall visits, photographers'...

Once upon a time, in the not-so-faraway land of Shreveport, a young speech-language pathologist was waddling down the hall largely pregnant with her second child. She worked at a very special school called Alexander Learning Center, and was on...

There are so many things that I love about the holiday season that it is very difficult for me to choose just one favorite thing. Between the Christmas music, presents, family gatherings, and the over indulgence in treats, how...

I love all the Christmas cheer!   But let's face it, it is such a busy time. Schedules become non existent, school seems to be in and out all the time, travel, events, work ... There's a lot of extra...

Christmas has always been my favorite holiday. I have so many fond memories of family gatherings, exchanging of gifts, picking out and decorating our trees, and, of course, all the magical childhood Christmases awaiting Santa’s arrival. It’s all just...

It finally happened y'all. Six years after our first child was born, my husband and I took our first getaway from our children. We had been away together once, for one evening, to attend his residency completion dinner, but...

Tonight, LAFMB will have our annual Team Dinner. You can call it postpartum hormones or whatever, but I am having lots of feelings in preparation of my second LAFMB Team Dinner. A year ago in October, I got an email...

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...

The minute the stores replace the Halloween decorations with Christmas ones, a tightness grows in my chest. I look at the calendar and count the Saturdays left until Christmas. The calendar. Oh the calendar. It's already filling up fast. The...

I am 5.5 weeks postpartum as I type this, and I have spent a ton of time in my rocker nursing and pumping. Next to my rocker, I have a little cart with burp clothes, swaddles, my pump, and...