Dear Overwhelmed Mother of One, I’m going to tell you a short story. It starts when I had my first daughter, which oddly enough, is when lots of my stories start. I was like many first time moms, completely overwhelmed. My baby cried, my body was a mess, my house was a mess, and my […]

  One of the many wonderful aspects of being a stay-at-home mom is the freedom it gives you to set your own schedule. I know, I’m laughing at that statement too. SAHMs don’t really decide their own schedule because it is largely determined by how many children you have and how old they are, but […]

A few years ago, my daughter went to a church activity and brought home “Our Journal”, also called a You and Me Journal. It’s a journal meant for two people to write notes back and forth to one another. My daughters and I did it for a while but then we moved…and then we moved […]

A few months ago I was at the laundromat talking with a woman, a stranger. There wasn’t anything notable about the conversation until she asked what I did for work. I told her I was a stay-at-home mom. To which she replied, “I could never stay home all day. I like to work too much.” […]

This is the third in an on-going series of posts titled Lessons from Parenthood. Definitely not lessons in parenthood because I know I am not qualified to write about those. Parenthood teaches so many incredible lessons, many of them humbling and hopefully funny. We parents have to laugh at ourselves if we are going to […]

Whether being a Stay-at-Home-Mom (SAHM) has always been your dream or has become your slightly nightmarish reality, you may sometimes look around and wonder what you’ve gotten yourself into. Being a SAHM comes with lots of challenges. Loneliness and boredom are the two that seem to be the most common and universal. Confession time, I didn’t […]

  I have trouble keeping my van clean. Read the post from my van here and you’ll get a glimpse of the on-going battle I’m fighting. Let me be clear, the inside of the van. I’ve completely given up on the outside; there’s no hope there so let’s move on. I grew up in a […]

  This is a blog post written by my good friend Karli for her blog a few years ago. She has given me permission to repost here. It touches on some interesting aspects of being a stay-at-home parent.  A few weeks ago, shortly after we purchased a new car, I was going over our budget and […]

  This is the second in a series of posts titled Lessons From Parenthood. Definitely not lessons in parenthood because I know I am not qualified to write about those. Parenthood teaches so many incredible lessons, many of them humbling and hopefully funny. We parents have to laugh at ourselves if we are going to […]

Dear Postpartum Me, You did it. Do you realize what you’ve accomplished? You have grown a human being, pushed her out, and now you’re nourishing her with your body. That is an incredible achievement that is often overlooked because it happens every day all over the world. However, that doesn’t diminish its significance to you. […]