By Whitney Fleming of Playdates on Fridays At the beach this past summer, I saw two young teens snapping photos at the edge of the water. The pair giggled at first, trying to get just the right shot with the ocean in the background, catching the sun dancing off the […]
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Breast Milk, Baby Gear and Blowouts: 9 Things I Don’t Miss About Traveling with Babies
By Katie Wadland of EatSleepMomRepeat We went on our annual family trip to Maine this week, and it was the first trip we’ve taken that didn’t involve bringing a baby along. My girls are 5 and 2 ½ now, and there are some pretty awesome perks to traveling with big(ger) […]
The Moments You Won’t Miss
By Kelly Bay of Beer and Junk, Adventures in Parenting We said goodbye to our first minivan this week. We purchased it a few months after finding out that we were pregnant with our youngest son. At the time we had a one-year-old, a three-year-old, a small, expensive Nissan Frontier and […]
How $50 a Week Saved My Stay-At-Home Mom-Hood
By Jamie Finn of Foster the Family Let me paint a picture for you right now. It’s 2:45 on Friday afternoon. I’m sitting by myself in a Mexican restaurant with some nachos and a Sixpoint Resin (the greatest of all beers), waiting for my fish tacos. Not one person in […]
The Stages of Grief When Your Kid Poops in the Bath
By Mindi Wisman So there you are, actively engaged with your phone kid who is playing in the bath. She’s talking to a duck, she’s drinking bath water, all totally normal and not at all disgusting things, when out of the corner of your eye you see…something. It’s brown and […]
Dear Mom Who Is Totally Screwing Up
By Rhiannon Giles of rhiyaya.com Dear mom who is totally screwing up, Today my five-year-old daughter screamed the whole way home because I would not buy her a pottery wheel. Today I lost my patience. I will lose my patience again tomorrow. I sometimes clean up her messes because I can’t […]
Seeing Yourself in Your Strong-Willed Children
By Kelly Riibe of Family Footnote Strong-willed children grow up to be determined parents, who in turn give birth to even stronger-willed kids. It is a cycle that describes my life pretty accurately. I was once a preschooler who demanded answers to a lot of questions, then an adolescent who talked […]
Stranded in Motherhood
By Tara Lawall of Most Likely a Rant Maternity leave is the movie Castaway. I am Tom Hanks and Cora, my 3-week-old, is Wilson. We are stranded alone on an island (my 505 square foot Brooklyn apartment) all day, every day. And, hey, islands are nice! You can hang out […]