by Erika of Erika’s Not So Secret Diary Have you ever suffered from stress while your children are around? Have you ever experienced yourself being extremely stressed? Let me give you some tips that you can use as a tool to reduce the stress. Whether you are a working mom, or a stay at home… Read More
Dear Beautiful Girl, The scale cannot measure your worth. And yes, I called you a girl because whether you are thirteen, thirty, or eighty-three that same mean-girl voice inside your head is judging you. While you make your list of resolutions, undoubtedly as mine always does some form of “get in better shape”, “loose the… Read More
Dear Sweet Mama, Are you having one of those weeks? I sure am. Maybe you handed the cashier a tampon instead of your debit card. Or just forgot your wallet entirely. Your garage door snapped off its hinges. Maybe you snapped off your hinges. Maybe your toddler lost it in a public place and you… Read More
Thousands of blog posts try to answer the question of why moms stay up late. Is it just needing more minutes in a day? Is it time to unwind with a glass of wine and a Netflix and actually chill (not the colloquialism)? Well I’ve been pondering why when sleep is the NUMBER ONE thing… Read More
Self care is like the new it thing. Might as well be hot yoga. Or spinning. It’s trendy. Like a top knot or skinny jeans or kale. We are all so obsessed with making sure we are getting our self care in that it is just one more thing we moms are adding to our… Read More
I am not much for resolutions. In the years I have even bothered to make them, I usually given them all up by January vowing that the following year will be “my year”. The concept reminds me of my brother’s first grade teacher, if you’ll indulge me a little tangent. Keenan, two years my junior,… Read More
When I am a mom I will never: Show up late. Show up late with coffee. Have a kid with a crusty, runny nose. Go out in public with dirty hair and yoga pants. Go out in public with dirty hair and dirty yoga pants. Go shopping with kids wearing pajamas. Bribe my pajama clad… Read More
Friends Forever. Surely we all had charm bracelets or anklets if you were an eighties babe like me. But most of our friendships probably have an expiration date. It took me a really long time to come around to this concept. In fact, I don’t know that every day I am totally there, but some… Read More
