I am going to come right out and tell you that I am a stroller snob. This doesn’t mean that I push my children...
I am so over hearing “that’s so nice for you that your husband doesn’t deploy.”
Yes, it is very nice that he does not deploy;...
I didn't get anything done today.
My "to do" list fell by the wayside when my 6-month old woke up from her nap ten...
A struggling first-time mom and her quarrels with adjusting to a life that is not her own anymore … sound familiar?
Many of us can...
I love Facebook’s “On This Day” feature. Last week I was particularly stressed as I was trying to get through finals as a grad...
There have been many times over the years that the father of my children has looked at me in such a way that I...
How am I going to be ‘Dad of the Year’ if I’m a self-serving psycho who craves little things like food and water?
All joking...
Pregnancy.
That beautiful time in a woman's life when perfect strangers feel they can say anything - and everything - they want to you.
Because that's...
You might have noticed threading kiosks popping up in malls across America lately. They're fairly minimal with reclining salon chairs and nothing more than...
When you are juggling deployments, moves, and job changes, finding time to take a family vacation can be challenging. But research suggests that spending...
My son turns 4-years-old this month. So far, he mostly seems concerned about his cake, unsure whether it should be firetruck or dinosaur themed....
As I’ve written before, I came to motherhood late in the game. My husband and I celebrated our eleventh anniversary a few months before...
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...
