This year my husband and I celebrated 13 years of marriage, and this month my eldest child turns 12. To say there have been few opportunities to focus solely on myself would be an understatement. It's something that I...
Recently, I’ve had a couple of friends become first-time moms, bringing me back to my earliest days with my son. Those first few weeks were intense and exhausting; I remember them so clearly. As someone who was a grateful...
I'm slowly finding myself. It is easy to get lost in motherhood. For a decade, it has been all about my children. Their needs and wants come first, and while I still have a career I am proud of,...
For many years, hand-me-downs were BIG in my house. My youngest daughter idolized her older sister, and she could not wait to wear her clothes and pajamas.
However, that ended just after kindergarten began, and my youngest realized maybe these...
When my youngest starts kindergarten this year, I’ll be home alone every day for the first time in over 11 years. After a pretty unstructured summer, with only a few camps scattered in, it will be a huge change...
As a child, I loved to read. I read so much and so fast that my mother used to say I “ate books.” I zipped through them so quickly she would need to hide them on road trips so...
Where you lead, I will follow. Follow me across the Northern Fairfield County border into New Milford in Litchfield County.
Did you know that the New Milford gazebo and town green may have been the inspiration for The Gilmore Girl’s...
Sometimes, I get jealous of how much my kids celebrate and fawn over my husband. I know it’s a terrible thing to feel, but it happens. Particularly when I am working so hard to make their lives fun, educational,...
To all my friends I haven’t spoken with in two months, I’m sorry. For all the coffee dates I’ve missed, believe me; I wish I could have made them. It’s not my intention to disappear each year from June...
Sparklers, long days at the pool or the beach, and leisurely backyard picnics with bike riding around the neighborhood with friends sprinkled in. The summertime of the past seems ideal, right? Sure!
Summertime, for me, is very nostalgic. I am...