Author Archives: AllMomDoes

To error is human. We all do it. Sometimes it’s good to remind ourselves that good can come from our slip-ups, too. It’s so very easy to beat ourselves up when our best intentions...

There’s no doubt about it, middle school is hard.  Most people look back on that period of their growing-up years as the most awkward, confusing, and challenging. But it doesn&rsqu...

I’ve seen it online numerous times - a debate that simply eludes me… natural birth vs. c-section. C-sections have been seen as the easy way out, a strategy to cheat. Some have even gone s...

Paris has fascinated me since I was a young girl. Growing up, most of my life I lived with my dad and stepmom, except when I spent summers with my mom. I would lie in bed with her on those su...

When I was seventeen, my best friend, Tania, and I jumped into my white Plymouth Duster and drove from State College, Pennsylvania, to Atlanta, Georgia—straight through in thirteen hours. We dro...

My daughter, Annie, recently started 1st grade and it is has not gone the way she planned. The day before school started, she spent nearly an hour applying her fake Lisa Frank press-on nails, getting ...

Why do you send your child off to school?  For most of us, the very first answer that comes to mind is to learn.  We equate school with academics.  And yes, learning is a huge part of t...

I can still remember it – clear as day. I was sitting in my middle school chemistry class when all of a sudden the walls and everything on the desks started shaking. The old laminate tiles ...

I always appreciated the sentiment behind the Sabbath commands in the Bible, but it wasn’t until I had children, and rest became harder and harder to come by, that I wanted  to take th...

Not everyone is going to like you.  I say this a lot, maybe because I need the reminder.  As moms raising kids, we’re in this weird stage of constantly being thrown into relationships ...