Mom Burnout: Five Strategies to Beat Survival Mode
It’s five o’clock in the afternoon. I’m standing in my kitchen staring at my oven, willing it to make lasagna for me. And then my small blond son sidles up...
Motherhood
Becoming a mother is like no other experience. This section contains articles about the ups and downs of motherhood.
Three Ideas to Create A Healthy New Normal After the Empty Nest
When empty nest hit, I mentally counted every day the same way I did when my child was born. “He’s been gone two months and three days.” Then it became,...
How Our Children Heal Us – When We Let Them
Right after our son’s second birthday, my husband raised his voice to me, and Garrett walked into the room, planted himself firmly in front of his father, and said, in...
6 Tips for Raising Confident Daughters
Raising a daughter who is confident, well-mannered and has a good self-image is not easy, especially in today’s uncivil world. Growing up, I was not the most confident person, but...
Six Tips to De-Stress the Newly Single Mom
Being a mother is demanding enough without the added stress of all that accompanies the dissolution of a marriage. From the first moment we knew our marriage would not survive,...
Going from One Kid to Two Was Hard
Becoming a mother was one of the most wonderful and difficult things that’s ever happened to me. Everything I’d ever perceived as challenging up and until the moment I first...
What Makes a Mom Sad?
When you’re pregnant with your first baby, you think you’re in for a world of rainbows, unicorns, and magical fairy dust from the minute he or she is born, and...
Little Children, Headache; Big Children, Heartache
This old proverb exists for a reason, because it’s absolutely true! Of course not every little child is a headache, nor is every big child a heartache. By this I...
Do Moms Feel Guilty All the Time
“Mom guilt”…it’s an actual thing. For some women, it starts before they’re even pregnant with their first child. When my husband and I started the process of trying to conceive,...
Understanding your Self Worth
I am a housewife. I cook and clean washing dishes, taking care of kids and finding the dust bunnies in the corner of the room that no one else notices....