Being a Mom

Somewhere along the way I told myself that hard things = bad things, and that I couldn't do hard things. Isn’t it scary how those things we tell ourselves(or that others tell us) become our truth? So I was...

I want to be that mom chasing her child through the yard, the mom hiking through a local state park with a baby on her back, or even just the mom that makes it home at the end of...

Dear family moving into our old home,   What a bittersweet day for us! We are absolutely thrilled that this home will now be yours-that you can fix meals together, enjoy walks around the neighborhood, and spend time on the deck...

I have a text thread on my phone I have affectionately named "The Offspring." Somewhere in the recesses of my quarantine-muddled brain I came up with the idea of using it to ask them to name my biggest #momfails....

In our house, we take birthday month and week very seriously. Birthdays themselves are full of celebration and excitement, and drawing that fun out an extra week adds to childhood magic. Our son turned two in September, and in...

Several of my friends and neighbors are pregnant or just had a baby, and a couple of them will be having their first child this year. I started thinking about what advice would have been helpful to me before...

In less than seven days I am having a scheduled surgery. As a mom of two C-section babies, and a previous hip surgery, this is not unfamiliar territory. However, having joint replacement surgery isn’t your everyday surgery, so of...

As an intern at Opelika High School, I taught a unit on bird identification. My mentor teacher in biology had twenty slides of birds common to our area and required his students to learn to identify them by sight....

You want to know what makes raising toddlers easier?  When you can relax a bit, take a step back, and really see what’s going on around your child and his or her own behavior.  Oh, and while you’re at it, jump...

“Coat hangers!” I hugged the half-unwrapped gift tightly as my daughters faces went from incredulous looks to hysterical laughter. We laughed until we cried. “Mom, I can’t believe you,” the oldest rolled her eyes, snapped a picture, and fell back...