We don’t often reminisce or miss our life before we had our girls. We love our children and feel so grateful that after several years of fertility treatment and IVF we were finally able to conceive. But there are those times…
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Busy Philipps Dishes On Motherhood
She’s a Hollywood actress, social media starlet, influencer, and mom of two, and there’s nothing she won’t talk about on her popular Instastories. Busy Philipps, who’s appeared on shows like Cougar Town and Dawson’s Creek, has captivated her fans on…
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Today I Was a Bad Mom And That’s OK
This post originally appeared on Perfection Pending. I knew it the second the alarm clock shouted at me at 6:40AM, I was tired. Not tired, exhausted. My muscles and bones ached, and my eyelids felt as if they weighed 110…
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8 Signs You’re Living With a Fournado
It’s uncanny how quickly behaviors can change in just a few short months in our children. We realize The Terrible Two’s weren’t so bad when the Threenagers emerge. And as we limp through that age we think, “Well, when she’s…
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What I Learned From a Social Media Time Out
When I first switched reluctantly from my beloved Blackberry to this iPhone contraption everyone was raving about, I posed a question to my actual friends on Facebook. (You know, when Facebook wasn’t a business and actual full of just real…
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The One Word I Try Like Hell Never to Say
I caught myself saying it to my husband early this morning, the one word I try like hell never to say. And most definitely never write. “What do you mean I have to do tax stuff today? I’m so busy…
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Why All Moms Need to Go On Vacation Alone
Have you ever been on vacation by yourself? I haven’t, but for some reason this year when I was about to hit a big birthday, I wanted more than anything to celebrate alone. Head west to the Grand Tetons for…
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10 Tips to Help Your Picky Eaters
How many parents have picky eaters? Other than sleeping, I would say getting our kids to eat has been our biggest challenge. So big in fact it prompted me to write How Childbirth is Easier Than Feeding your Kids, (It’s true, I…
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One New Food – Starfruit
Starfruit is a lovely little tropical fruit that just happens to be in season and on sale down here in South Florida. What a perfect one new food for kids to try right? It’s sweet, shaped like a star, and…
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