For those of us who find ourselves just trying to get all our kids fed and out the door in one piece during this time of year, you will thank yourself for implementing some of these hacks into your life. How do I know you’ll be thanking yourself for starting these new routines? Because I tried all ten of these
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1- Running teaches me perseverance You know the phrase, “Never quit on a bad day”? In running, I always tell myself to never stop on an uphill. Running has taught me to work through the tough moments, to not quit when things get hard. That lesson translates into parenthood pretty easily. In the moments when I want to snap, when
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Almost five years ago, I was standing in your shoes. I remember the morning so clearly–despite five years worth of full-time teaching, momming, a pandemic, and having another baby– that drop-off moment is crystal clear amidst the postpartum haze that seems to make most of my memories fuzzy. The sun hadn’t even fully risen yet. My husband and I drove
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This morning as I was pouring my cup of coffee (that first one of the day, when you still have hope that you might get to drink that same cup while it’s still hot), I could hear my 5-month-old son screeching in the living room. He hasn’t mastered the typical giggle yet. Maybe the screech is his giggle. It sounds
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Open up Facebook on any random day, and you’re likely to see that someone has posted “Happy National (fill-in-the-blank) Day!” You name it, there’s a holiday for it: Happy National Ice Cream Day! Happy World Siblings Day! Happy Pets with a First Name That Starts with C Day! And I have seen the complaint appear often that with an over-saturation
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When I was pregnant with my first child, I read that if your baby won’t stop crying, take them outside. I didn’t truly appreciate at the time what world that one piece of advice opened up for me, but five years and two kids later, it’s my answer for just about everything. Bored? Go outside. Lonely? Let’s go outside. Overwhelmed?
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It’s likely that if you’re a mom of littles or you’re close to a mom of young children, you know about Facebook mom groups. These groups are formed based on location, or birth month of their baby, or style of parenting, or love of a particular motherhood brand (ahem, Latched Mama Love), or any other commonality that brings moms together.
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If I have to decide what we’re having for dinner one more night this week, I am going to lose my mind. Every few weeks, this becomes my most pressing and urgent need: to not have to make one more decision. And while at first I thought this must just be a “me problem,” it turns out it’s a psychological
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Sometimes I get caught up in the highlight reel that is social media. There’s nothing wrong with it–the perfectly posed, filtered, aesthetically-curated photos proudly displayed front and center on any given mom’s instagram grid. I’ve got those pictures, too, and I treasure them. I like that those moments are captured–when my kids’ outfits are matching, and a professional photographer somehow
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The moment my second child was born and placed in my arms, I recognized that familiar full tidal wave of all-encompassing love washing over me. There was that same exhilarating moment of this brand new life being placed in my arms. There he was: that face I had spent 9 long months dreaming of. The feeling that I could spend
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