On the night before she was born, I held you a little extra tight. I whispered “I love you” a million times over into your ear and I cried. Not because I was sad about the impending birth of your little sister, but because of what I fear I will lose.
You Can Definitely Lose Weight On The “Toddler Diet”
When I was pregnant with my first everyone said that breastfeeding was the best way to lose all the weight and they were right. I nursed you for 15 months and after about the first 9 I returned to my pre-pregnancy weight. Now, unfortunately, I never lost an extra ounce. Not one darn pound. Truly …
This Is How I Broke Sleep As A New Mom
I did it all wrong with sleep. I remember our first night in the hospital, my peaceful, sleepy son began screaming as soon as we turned out the lights and laid him in his bassinet. After picking him back up and nursing him again and repeating the process of crying and screaming I remember telling …
Here’s Why You Need To Slow Down As A Mother
When I first became a mom, I was exhausted. I remember sitting on the couch all day just trying to survive to when my husband would come home. Sometimes I would even call him while he was still driving home and beg him to take me out to dinner. We would pack up the baby …
How To Understand & Appreciate The Different Styles Of Motherhood
There are many different kinds of moms. There are the working moms and the stay at home moms course. But within that there is the attachment parenting mom, the boy mom, the girl mom, the co-sleeping mom, the formula fed mom, the breast-feeding mom, the exercise mom, the activities mom and the list could keep …
Being A Stay-At-Home Mom Is An Amazing Gift
There are many types of moms. For starters, there’s the mom who has to stay at home because they have no other options. This mom stays at home because she can’t make enough money to cover day care costs by working. So she has to stay at home. The second is the working mom because she has …
This Is My Life As A Stay-At-Home Mother
You know those moms that you see in the grocery store, at “Mommy and Me” classes, or at story time at the local library? The ones with two or three kids who are well behaved. The mom that has the super cute outfit on that she claims she just threw together from Target or Kohl’s. …
This Is What The Beginning Of Motherhood Really Looks Like
You never know what will cause it. Sometimes it is a voice, a word, a story, a season. Sometimes it is obvious that it is coming and you can prepare yourself, gird yourself. But then you have days like today, where you sink into the darkness, it surrounds you, engulfs you, sucks the breath right out of …