Author Archives: AllMomDoes

My husband and I just celebrated our 7 year anniversary. YES. SEVEN years. Time flies! To our parents, we’re still a young marriage, to our friends who haven’t settled down yet, we’r...

It’s been a long and absolutely beautiful summer here in Seattle, and with that heat also comes some unpleasant odors. Why do these tend to be worse in the summer?   ...

Young moms have a lot of needs. They're still teenagers, yet they also have to balance school, a boyfriend, friends, parents, and sometimes work. As a teen mom I faced depression when I lost my boyfri...

There are two things that will kill a relationship with another mom, a momlationship if you will, faster than you can say, "Your baby is so cute." Comparison and judgment. The two go hand-in-hand and ...

The minute you discover another woman is also a mom, something shifts.  An indescribable, unspoken connection is formed and you know that you are both part of the same sisterhood. Moth...

You have a crazy number of choices.  There are ten shelves of mayonnaise in the grocery store, a wall full of shampoo options at the salon, and an entire aisle of different types of toilet paper....

There's a list we all have.  You know, the list of all the things we'd love to spend money on but can't because our budget doesn't allow for it right now.  That list has things on it like th...

You know that thing when you need to just get it all out and externally process all the emotions and intricacies of The Big Problem in your life and then your friend starts trying to solve The Big Pro...

Has the novelty of summer vacation worn off (even if it’s just started)? Are your kids (and very possibly you) looking for some new stuff to do? Keep reading to find new ways t...

When our first child was born, we learned that she had Down syndrome. We entered a period of what I have taken to calling “dramatic hard stuff,” a time of emotional and spiritual transform...