When Motherhood Feels Heavy

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Motherhood is unlike anything else. I know that sounds incredibly cliche, but it's true. It's more than a job. It's more than a position...
  "Sometimes you feel foolish, even look foolish, but you do the thing anyway.” –Gus, The Go Giver   She’s beautiful, collected, approachable and she's oozing self-confidence. Her...
The guilt I am ridden with as I write this post is consuming me. To think that my beautiful children that I waited a...
Back in July of 2017, I wrote my very first Military Moms blog. It spoke to the newness of being a military spouse. It...
Open up a credit card to make travel cheaper? Sounds pretty counter-intuitive, right? Actually it isn’t, and I'm here to explain why every military...
Long before we got pregnant, I knew I’d be a boy mom.  Not just any boy mom, a #boymom. You know what I’m talking...

A Poem for Postpartum Moms

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So you just had a baby… I think it counts within a year! Our lives are probably similar I am here to say, “Have no fear!”   You’re not...
I cried at Chick-fil-A today. I went there to eat my feelings, but instead I ended up making everyone around me exceptionally uncomfortable.  I fully...
Deployments suck. We can all agree on that. That doesn’t mean we have to lead a terrible life for half the year though. I’m...
How in the name of summer time is it back-to-school season already?! Please tell me I’m not the only one who feels like she...
Slang has always been a part of language and culture. Most of us use slang on a daily basis without giving it a second...
For many of us active duty military families, we get a bit of bad rep for abusing our ER. I know you’ve done it!...

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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...