If you’re anything like me, the first Tuesday at Target after Halloween is the most exciting day at Target each year. The store rapidly starts to transition from fall to the holidays, and it shows with all the lights going up first. It’s so much fun to wander the aisles and think about what to get for the kids in

By my third trimester, I felt like if ONE more person told me “everything was going to change” after the baby was born, I was going to explode. Obviously, I knew things were going to change.  Although, with most things in regards to motherhood, I did not quite grasp how different things would be. Just like I knew I was

The holiday season is upon us.  I’ve seen social media posts where Christmas trees were decorated early, and outdoor lights were hung long before Thanksgiving. Even my local radio station began streaming nothing but Christmas music and has been since early November.  Right now, in the midst of pandemic living, everyone is looking for reasons to be merry. So, in

There is something incredible about watching your baby grow and learn, knowing that not only did you create them completely from scratch, but you have continued to grow them outside the womb by giving the best food nature has to offer, breastmilk! There is so much hard work that goes into those first few months of breastfeeding and, whatever your

My family has gone to every length to protect our family from COVID since March. We’ve masked, we’ve distanced and we’ve enveloped ourselves in a very small community of friends to get through this time together. We never expected to be exposed – until we were.  We were spending time with friends on a Saturday night in October. We took

Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa or another holiday tradition during this season, we all want the same thing – peace! How can you put aside the drama, the stress and the excess to enjoy a pleasant family holiday and end 2020 on a high note? Here are 7 ways to make your season merry and bright – all the

As long as my husband and I have been together, we’ve had at least one fur baby. Neither of us could imagine a life or a home without a dog in it. In fact, we’re suspicious of people who “don’t like dogs.” After four years of revolving our world around “children” with four legs, my husband and I decided to

I don’t know about you, but I didn’t think I’d want to be a stay-at-home-mom (SAHM). I started the parenting game several years later than most of my friends and was enjoying the fruits of an advancing career. When I became pregnant, I envisioned myself as the kind of mother that would take her three months of maternity leave and

After my son was born, I experienced this strange type of grief. I felt myself grieving that he was no longer so close to me, that he was now living outside my body. It was a little strange because after nine months I thought I was SO ready to not be pregnant anymore.  That grief slowly left and was replaced

As an expecting first-time mom, I was overwhelmed with the information and advice thrown at me. I wrote things down. I read books. I tried to remember everything because it all sounded so important. Then, my son was born, and I was thrust into this new role everyone had been trying to prepare me for.  After some time in the