A few months ago, my 10-year-old daughter came home from school and said, “Mom, today at school, a girl told me to go back...
I am not a very sentimental person. I don't have a hope chest. I didn’t preserve and keep my wedding dress. My children’s baby...
After my daughter was born, I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to continue breastfeeding exclusively once I returned to work. I...
I waited a long time to have kids. My husband and I had our 11th anniversary a few months before our son was born. We...
  I never buy anything at full retail price. Seriously, never. Why? Well, it’s a habit I developed in part due to my upbringing, but...
Halloween is swiftly approaching and, as per usual for the opinionated voices of the internet, there has been quite some controversy over what is...
As a parent of a toddler, I spend most of my day pleading with my child to eat anything other than the stale Cheerios...
Being a military kid is hard! You might not have a lot of choice in where you live or what you do. There are...
The first time I remember my dad being gone was during a year-long deployment to South Korea when I was in the second grade....
"Hey Girl! (I use this phrase when I don't really know someone but am attempting to be simultaneously breezy and familiar.) Remember me?" Nope. As I...
You know who your sister-wife (if you had to choose) would be, and she knows who she is. Her kids and yours are more...
Military Mom coming home hugging daughter

Deploying as a Mom

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It started with a boo-boo. She face-planted off a Costco bottle of laundry detergent. Blood oozed from her lip and tears poured from her...

Military Lifestyle

Normalized Overwhelm

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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...