When the vacant house next door to you finally sells, you learn that the new owners don’t have any kids. No kids? How odd! you think. You run through a gamut of emotions: disappointment, relief, fear. You finally accept the unknown card that fate has dealt you and assume […]
By Yvette Manes of AquaSeventy6 If you are on Facebook, you probably get that little daily notification reminding you of things you said, did, shared and uploaded on this day each year. Every morning, my feelings about this feature range from nostalgia to utter mortification. It is as though each […]
By Whitney Fleming of Playdates on Fridays “Everyone is somebody’s daughter; everyone is somebody’s son.” My Facebookaversary is coming up soon. Yep, I’ve been wasting time in the black hole of the Internet for nearly thousands of days and loving every second of it. But it hasn’t all been sunshine […]
I remember when my baby was five months old, we started going to Baby Group. It was my savior, my safe place, my guide to being a mom. I have eleven nieces and nephews, but I hadn’t been that interested enough in babies to become informed about them. I […]
By Diana Kane of Mama Needs A Cupcake The magical day of tantrums and spilled milk is finally coming to a close. You carry your flailing toddler up the stairs to commence the blissful “six” hour bedtime routine. There’s pottying, teeth brushing, reading of a million books and talk about the […]
By Ambrosia Brody of Random Aspects of My Life Multitasking is the only way parents achieve anything with little kids underfoot. For many of us, a trip to the bathroom provides us a few seconds to just be still, catch our breath and be alone. Those few minutes are priceless. […]
By Sherene Buffa I think most moms can agree that they have lied to their kids a time or two. There are times when we have to fib a little. Times when your kid is having a tantrum and you say things that aren’t true to get her to do what you […]
By Theresa Janaitis of Mommy Dearest Inc. Let me just cut to the chase. Prior to having my baby, the term “Mom Group” made me, well, cringe. I imagined the “stroller parking lot” at CPK teeming with crusty strollers filled with gummed up yogurt melts, crushed Goldfish, Cheerio smithereens and a thick coat […]