When I learned my first baby would be a girl, I was nervous. Years of ups and downs in my relationship with my mother...
A lot of ink gets spilled about Mom Guilt. That creeping, nagging feeling, however true or untrue, that we could have done it better....
Mid-winter.
That blah time of year smack in-between 'post-holiday cheer' and 'pre-spring joy.'
Ugh.
My husband is a pilot. And when the weather is bad, he...
Mothers protect children.
All around the world, across the majority of the animal kingdom, mothers protect children.
We carry our babies for nine months in our...
I am guilty of obsessing over others’ responses to tragedy. By this, I mean, I take to the deep dark vortex of news websites,...
Since my first pregnancy seven years ago, I have come to relax … a lot.
But first a disclaimer: The information included in this article...
It happened to me when my third child was two months old. My husband was on a remote tour in South Korea. We were...
At the time of this writing, I have an 8-day 3 week one month old baby. (I was optimistic about getting this post done. Clearly I...
I experienced many challenging days as a new mother. I spilled my guts in a previous post about how difficult it was for me to...
We all know that our children are not born with instruction manuals to hand us at their births. No one in the world can...
I am going to just come right out and say it. I have been having an affair ... with H-E-B.
The first time we met,...
As I was in the middle of surviving, yes surviving, three weeks of winter break with my husband deployed and no family visits planned,...
Military Lifestyle
Normalized Overwhelm
Over the Edge
I was standing in the kitchen, washing dishes and doing mental math: I was trying to figure out how to get the...
