Tag: parenting
Taking What Works: Meet Kate
As a pregnant person, everyone wants to give you advice. When I was carrying my twins I found that to be the case times two! By...
Traditional Upbringing Meets Modern Parenting
A recent discussion with my husband gave me an idea. How on Earth could I be married to a man who I love so...
Mommy Problems {BIG vs. little}
Last Sunday, while I was lying in bed trying to ignore the fact that my three children were already running wild, I heard the...
Snow Day? Ideas for Surviving Cabin Fever
It’s winter in CT…which inevitably means SNOW DAY! I remember the year I was teaching when we had something like 8 TOTAL school days...
Can we please save manners? We need to save empathy!
A few weeks ago I was, shockingly, in a grocery store the next town over with my oldest daughter. She was sitting happily in...
You Made Me A Mama: A Letter To My Baby On...
Happy first birthday, my sweet boy. Someday I'll tell you the story about how long we waited for you. Imagined you. Those last few...
Learning to Accept That This Is Temporary…My Personal Pep Talk
There's a little pep talk that I give myself every morning around 2:30am when I have a 4 year old sleeping on top of...
Make Room For The Holidays
It’s here….the holiday season! My mom calls this time the “Christmas tsunami,” a force coming in so fast and furious that it’s hard not...
Grief as a Parent
We’re parents. But we’re also humans. We have our good days, and our bad days. Our silly days, our grumpy days; and, as Moms…our...
Leading From the Front {of My Family}
People often talk about "leading from the front" in a business sense...saying that a good leader is defined by his or her actions rather...