“Don’t worry – no one goes to college in diapers,” my mom kept reassuring me as I moaned to her for the millionth time about the fact that my kid seemed totally uninterested in being potty-trained. Every parent knows this, but sometimes it can feel like it’s never going to happen.
Whenever the subject comes up with another mom, either one who currently has little children or a seasoned mom of older kids who has seen it all, I almost always hear the same thing: “That was one of the hardest things we had to do as parents.”
I’m currently potty-training my second child, so you’d think I’d know what I was doing, since I’ve done this before. But it’s hard,...
While perusing social media one day, I came across a post that posed the question ::
“If you could write a book about your life thus far, what would be the title?”
The question really resonated with me, as I began to think about my life experiences. So, I thought it to be a great conversation starter while celebrating a close friend’s birthday on a road trip to Houston. As we drove along the highway, I randomly asked the question I’d seen on Facebook months earlier :: “If you could write a book about your life thus far what would be the title?”
Initially, I received a few blank stares (of course from my husband, as if to say here she goes). However,...
6:15. It's time. My eyes peep open, and I can see the light blue of the morning sky through the window. I have to try harder today. I will. I will try harder than yesterday. I will do better.
Coffee warms my bones, and I begin to perk up. The morning still feels so daunting, despite the promise I made to myself when I got up. I go through the motions of dressing kids, signing papers for school, getting myself dressed but I want so badly to crawl back into that bed, turn out every light and sleep it all away.
Instead, I eagerly wash down the pills I always hope will magically take this from me, but instead they just...
A lot of time has passed since my last twins related post.
As a new mom of twins, I was learning to juggle being a wife, career woman, and mom to three. Now, a half of year later, I feel like I have lived three lifetimes.
It’s been both rewarding and mentally exhausting as we’ve navigated discussion after discussion, hoping we were making the right decisions. One difficult choice we recently had to make was whether the twins would be kept together or separate at daycare.
The twins have been at their daycare since 12 weeks old. From 12 weeks to 20 months, they made every move together. From the infant room to the crawler room, from the wobblers room to the...
Disclosure :: This post is sponsored by the Louisiana Art & Science Museum.
Studio Saturdays:: Having Fun at Louisiana Art & Science Museum
Louisiana Art & Science Museum has this awesome new exhibit: Picturing Vivian Maier A Street Photographer Revealed (January 23-May 22) This exhibit is so cool, Vivian Maier was a nanny with a knack for photography. So as she nannied in places like New York & Chicago, she carried her camera with her and “developed” quite the collection of candid photographs. In line with paying homage to Vivian & her craft, LASM is hosting Studio Saturdays, a new series of interactive workshops with a different theme each month. February's theme was Learning to Look and took the kids on a scavenger...
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