About four years back we found ourselves sitting together on New Years and having this conversation about how we wanted to raise our family. What things did we want to do with our three small kids? What things did we want to teach them? What kind of character did we want to nurture in them? […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about the time in my life where everything seemed to suck. Parenting was depleting all my resources, I felt in over my head on a daily basis. My marriage was bookended with resentment on both sides, I knew we were both so lost and angry. I felt restless and […]
alternate post title: LET ME FEEL MY FEELINGS!! Let’s open with a hypothetical conversation I may or may not have had with my husband recently (but probably totally did)….. The scene is this. It is 9pm. I’m curled up at the dining room table in my pajamas, hypothetically drinking tea (but probably the nice whiskey I […]
Anxiety in motherhood took over my parenting, my marriage and my happiness I came across this really interesting article. It lists five types of mothering styles: perfectionist(she is hypercritical and controlling), unpredictable (she parents based on the mood she’s in), best friend (she avoids taking on the ‘parent’ role), me-first (her kid’s job is to make her ‘shine’) and […]
My bestie and I are both stay at home moms. We joke about the fact that ‘we have it good’. We know this isn’t how it feels all the time, we know it hasn’t always been this way, but at the end of the day, we feel grateful for being able to be stay […]
Just over four years ago I had my second child. It seemed reasonable to quit my career and stay at home with my two small kids. This life choice was further confirmed when another baby came two years later. Quitting my career in public health was an identity shift. I was going from a job […]
How did this happen? I need to retrace my steps that led to this decision. The reason why I said ‘Goodbye’ to my iPhone I think it had something to do with too many grainy dark photos, and sobbing over deleted apps as I would consistently run out of storage. And it definitely had something to […]
Whether or not we realize it, we are all ‘influencers’. We are all sharing stories, pictures, articles, life and advice on a daily basis from our phones. We are all wired to ‘live out our days’ with this online component and the grand scheme of all our posts and stories have a theme to them. […]
For years I have done this little thing called ‘perfect moments’. As a mom it became and even bigger part of my every day life. A while ago I had told my bestie about it and she recently told me that she had started it too and that it has changed her whole outlook. Don’t be thrown […]
When I heard about bullet journaling I think I shouted out loud, ‘it IS a thing!?’ Because I had been doing it for years without realizing it. You probably have to. Here is how you know if you are a bullet journaler in hiding: Do you keep lists? Or are you, as I like to […]