Boy Mom Life With Humor and Hygge
The Night I Saved The Girl With Steel Blue Eyes: I looked deeply into her vaguely familiar steel blue eyes. There was a warmth about them, but also something so broken, sad and lacking sparkle. We stood there and stared each other down for a long time. That’s when I heard it - his words. His View Post
Have you ever had to be so REAL with your child that it hurt? - Like you were punched in the gut?! Well, today I managed to stay authentic when parenting got real, it was down-right raw! It was a normal afternoon after school pickup. The kids’ mouths didn’t stand still for a minute. They were View Post
Have you ever looked over your shoulder, in hopes that the mother of the toddler screaming on the floor in front of you will magically appear? Only to realize that YOU are the kid’s mother… for a minute you teeter between hysterically crying or laughing. Parenting is part intuition and part like View Post
My newsfeed is blowing up lately with articles about friends. There are tips on how to meet like-minded friends, how painful it is to lose them and why we need them. Lately I have been disappointed, frustrated and upset with the concept of friends… and then it dawned on me… I DO have that View Post
Today's article is a guest post! Marissa is a licensed Mental Health Counselor who specialized in couple's counseling and child development before starting her own family. She has been published in many academic journals and magazines. We run ourselves ragged these days, and frankly, View Post
Today's post is a guest submission from Patricia Dimick. She has written a number of articles for me. Her articles are always timely and well-received. With such busy schedules, families spend too little quality time together these days. From school and tutoring time to extracurricular View Post
I am thrilled to introduce a new blog series called “Ten Things Other Parents Need to Know About…” Each blog post will feature a complex medical condition and a parent with an affected child will answer ten questions. These posts will be an invaluable resource to other parents with newly diagnosed View Post
I am thrilled to announce that I recently accepted a new position, read all about my promotion! This is the job I applied for: Executive to Supervise a Team of Micro-Managers Candidate must possess the following qualifications: Excellent conflict negotiation and resolution skills. Prior View Post
We are constantly on the go, rushing to and fro, trying to fit as much as possible into our already over-extended lives. We have to stop, breathe and find our focus. The frazzled rushing is counter-productive. We need a goal-oriented focus in order to be constructive. We are unfortunately unable to View Post
Dear Son, I failed you yesterday! I didn’t see you. I did not SEE you all day – and now I miss you terribly, probably as much as you miss me. I am sitting here thinking back on the day that passed , and I realize that I went an entire day without truly seeing my boy. The morning was View Post
Dear Narcolepsy, Thank you for waking me up! You reared your ugly head and made my life so miserable that I was forced to make drastic changes. Wrangling this dragon for the past 10 years has taught me countless things about myself, life and managing a chronic medical condition. The lessons I View Post
Some stories happen and instantly beg to be written, others need to mature and then one day they are ready to be presented to the world. I have held this story in my heart for six years, it has pulled me through the most terrifying times of my life. This account was my "snuggle buddy", "security View Post
As I look back on 2014, I am truly in awe and humbled by the year we just had. The love and support from friends (that’s you) and family (a group of people who overlap with the “friends” category) is so incredibly heartwarming and encouraging. I work hard to bring you possibly interesting, View Post
If you are a working mother, please take a few minutes to read my thorough list of things you need to do ASAP! You do NOT want to run the risk that your employer looks at you as a corporate-ladder-climber with a lot of potential – that only leads to bigger paychecks and longer titles. Instead, be View Post