Tag Archives: Mothering Well

I've worked outside the home for the duration of my motherhood, and I decided long ago to leave the mommy wars.  {I don’t think they really exist anywhere except on the inte...

My Daughter: “You know what Michelle called me at school?  Right in front of everyone at the lunch table!” Me: “No, what did she call you?” My Daught...

It was my first pregnancy, and I knew I'd be returning to work full-time after my son was born. There were a million things I needed to do to prepare for his birth, but near the top of the list was fi...

It’s been a almost 2 weeks since we came back from our first camping trip as a family of 5 and as I’ve gone through the pictures from our trip, I’ve been wrestling with how I want to...

Just in case you haven’t been following along, I’ve been working on instilling contentment in my teens and last week I suggested 6 activities that might help with this. One of t...

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...

It doesn’t matter if you are a stay at home mom, working mom, a student, a combination of those or something else. We all have it: mom guilt. If you happen to have a day free of this ...

By the time our kids reach 16 and above I have this unrealistic expectation that they should be acting more like adults than kids.  For the most part, I believe that if we treat our teens more ma...

I picked one of my teen daughters up this morning from a friend’s house to go work at her older sister’s for the day. Job description: babysit and do chores. She began to kind o...

The day before had been one of the best in recent memory with my kids.  But there we were the following morning, barely even daybreak, and it was already shaping up to be one of those days that y...