By Shelby Spear of shelbyspear.com It’s official. My guy will go to any extreme to get some shizzle. I came home from a six day vacation without him to a house that had been primped, primed, touched up and tinkered with. All in the form of a completed twenty-seven item honey-do […]
By Rhiannon Giles of rhiyaya.com It really did happen. I have to remind myself sometimes that it was not just a story I heard—not a story that happened to somebody else. I really did start bleeding at 29 weeks pregnant. The words, “placental abruption” and “in case we have to deliver,” […]
By Rachel Perkins of thewelladjustedadult.com The decision to have more children should probably be approached with even more consideration than the choice to have one child. For some people, the choice is made for them via medical complications making it impossible or a drunken night away from the kid resulting in […]
By Michelle Riddell This is a story about a mother, a daughter, and a rest area bathroom. The mother and daughter are together in a stall, the daughter clearly in distress: her first period. She knows what is happening to her in a clinical, puberty-filmstrip sort of way, but mostly […]
By Andrea Rosas Howe of The Howe To Blog I was chatting with the other moms about summer plans. Our family’s plans included little more than long, lazy days at the beach and some ballet lessons. “What else?” one mom asked expectantly. [adsanity id=”35664″ align=”aligncenter”/] “That’s it,” I responded, garnering a […]
By Thom Hofman of daddymediumwell.wordpress.com Cayden is obsessed with the digital sphygmometer that is blister-packed and hanging to the left of the pharmacy counter. A sticker on the front of the package shows a digital metric of a heartbeat—or maybe a blood pressure read-out (I’m not a doctor)—with systolic and diastolic […]
By Jean Lomas-Hamilton of this slow process Painstakingly researching and selecting a parenting style has become a necessary rite of passage for modern moms. After all, without a parenting style, we have no rules to follow. Without a set of rules to follow, we’re just making things up as we go along. And if we make things up as […]
By Kelly Bay of Beer and Junk My parents were hands off parents. They didn’t micromanage our homework or attend athletic practices or ever call a teacher or coach to intervene on our behalf. It is one of the traits that I always admired most about them: their ability to […]