The words “fashion-forward” and motherhood don’t often go hand-in-hand. Of course, there’s always the impossibly put together mom at play group who manages to...
It seems that the winter months are all about survival. We just want to make it through the snow storms, through the cold and...
Let’s get real. We all get up every morning, get dressed in a hurry to drop the kids at school and/or head to work....
I once thrived on current events and the daily buzz of world news that streamed to my phone and television.
Now, it seems that...
You know that old saying - “We have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends...
*The following was written in September 2016, two weeks after giving birth. Whereas I am currently past the emotional turmoil described, I still felt...
You know the drill.
After you finally arrive in your new city, the to-do list generally looks a little like this:
-unpack the coffee maker
-set up...
Dear Meredith,
You’ve made it. You are now officially halfway done with this latest deployment. You are surviving, your kids are striving, and your husband...
Dear Bedtime,
I’ve worked so hard for you. I read books about you. I wrote notes on you. I talked endlessly about you with my...
Life’s trials can really test your courage and expressing that in writing can be difficult, too. It makes you all the more vulnerable, but...
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...
Just mention the word “tradition” and I immediately become giddy. Growing up, if Mom and Dad didn’t initiate a yearly tradition (you name the...
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...
