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How To Help A New Mama Friend
I think of visits to my new baby-mama friends in three categories: Needs food. Needs errands. Needs company. Each mama may need only one or a combination of all three. I pretty much stayed in bed the...
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A City Mom’s Guide to Surviving the Suburbs
I never saw myself living in the suburbs. I have been a city person for most of my life. In fact, I would say the more appropriate term is “city snob.” I used to think a trip out to Short Pump should...
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Getting Your Mojo Back In The Midst Of The Winter Blues
This time of year is always tough for me. The holidays are over, the schedules have gotten crazy again, and the winter blues have taken hold. It’s about this time every year that I struggle to get...
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The Toddler Years: Reframing the Terrible Twos
I have a two-year-old, and that means some days start with battles over peanut butter waffles, complete with toddler tantrums and tears on the kitchen floor before I’ve even pressed the start button on...
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Why We Need to Leave Our Kids, Even if They Cry
If there were a gold medal for synchronized wailing, my kids would win it every single time I drop them off at our gym’s childcare center.My two-year-old daughter starts as I walk her into the bright,...
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The Life Cycles of Laundry
It’s been one of those weeks where I feel like my house is slowly taking over my life. There don’t seem to be enough hours in the day to get done all that needs to be done. The dishwasher feels like...
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6 Ways Parenting as an Introvert Can Be Really Hard
I’m an introvert. Always have been. It’s a fundamental part of my being, a trait as hard-wired as my love of caffeine or my ability to memorize random pop culture trivia.At 33 years old, not only have...
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What Every Mom Feels Like During Winter Break
Winter break comes at a time when we’re all ready for it. Kids are excited for the holidays and need some time off from busy school schedules. Teachers count down the moments until they can leave the...
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10 Types of Parents You Meet In Social Media Groups
Until I became a mother almost three years ago, I had no idea about the vast world of social media groups. There are local parenting groups, groups for working moms, groups for breastfeeding moms, even...
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Hilarious Starbucks Parody Perfectly Sums Up Post-Holiday Mom Life
Now that the holidays are over, winter break is finally done, and the new year is officially underway, most of us are still in a post-holiday daze. We’ve been running on caffeine and adrenaline for so...
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Instructional Grocery Store Shopping Video For Busy Moms Everywhere
We’ve all been there. The kids need to be picked up in three different places, on opposite sides of town, all at the same time. These same kids will be expecting dinner shortly after arriving home. Our...
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The Challenges of Mom Shopping
I avoid shopping for myself as much as humanly possible. It’s not that I don’t like shopping, it’s just that as the years have gone by, it has become a greater challenge. And yet, in regular cycles of...
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Why the Mom Flu Might Be a Blessing in Disguise
Ok, hear me out. I’m in the throes of Influenza A, so I speak from experience. Though it is the worst I’ve felt in a long, long time, there are some positive aspects to coming down with the flu.* (And,...
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ME TIME: Before Kids…and Today
The other day, my pre-teen daughter asked if she could take a bath in my large, perfect-for-bubble-baths bathtub. Considering the fact that I most certainly wasn’t going to be using it, I said, yes....
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To The Invisible Mom: I See You
Remember being a kid on the playground with your friends and imagining what it would be like to have a superpower? Some kids claimed they would choose the power to fly. Others would wish for x-ray...
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6 Things You Should Never Say to a Pregnant Woman
Any woman who has experienced pregnancy has likely received the same infuriating comments from friends and strangers alike. These remarks range from well-intentioned ignorance to outright rudeness....
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If Moms Gave Each Other Awards
Being a parent can be a thankless job. Ok, let’s be honest, it’s almost always a thankless job. Not to say it’s not immensely rewarding, because it most certainly is. But in terms of actual thanks or...
View ArticleMomsplaining with Kristen Bell and Melissa McCarthy
There was a time when celebrity moms were limited to the ones we saw on television. June Cleaver always had dinner on the table – while wearing a clean dress and pearls. Marion Cunningham always...
View ArticleKristen Bell’s “Momsplaining: Quarantine Edition” Is The Laugh We All Need Today
If you’re familiar with Kristen Bell (even if it’s because you’ve watched Frozen 1,497 times…just since the start of quarantine), then you know that she’s not only incredibly talented, but she’s a...
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Get Weird
Antonyms for normal: abnormal, exceptional, extraordinary, odd, out-of-the-way, strange, unusual, weird When I was in high school all I wanted was to be normal. When my mom asked me if I would jump...
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