By Kelly Berdine of Raw, Beautiful Life I have a boyfriend, and he is so hot. He is my kids’ swim teacher. His skin is deeply tanned from triathlon training under the hot, tropical sun, and he has Chinese lettering tattooed on his lower back symbolizing his love for me; […]
By Courtney Barnum of A Legion for Liam If you told me twenty years ago that this is where I’d be today, I’d have punched you in your eating hole for daring to speak such nastiness. (I was a rough chick back then. I was kind, and I was fair, […]
I have endless tender feelings for my sons. They know without question that I love them to the ends of the earth. They also know I’m scary. Really scary. I remember a conversation I had lifetimes ago with a friend, a young woman, who told me about the one and […]
By Jennifer Pitt of Mommies Drink My two-year old is wise beyond her years. She has almost perfected her grasp of sarcasm, and I think we are on the brink of a beautiful eye-roll. I am the proud parent (owner? manufacturer?) of what I refer to, with the utmost affection, […]
By Randi Cornwall of Poppies + Pinot My cheeks burn when I see the photos. All the people I love, at an event I would have been honored to attend. The #blessed #besties burn my retinas. I can’t help but wonder what it is that I’ve done to earn this […]
For the past three years our household has gotten out of having to host Thanksgiving. Last year I was weeks away from having our second daughter, and the one year my husband and I actually did host the meal was when I was pregnant with my first child. And […]
By Jill Robbins of Ripped Jeans & Bifocals I was crying the ugly cry in my hospital room after my daughter was born. A nice nurse found me some Kleenex. She was kind to me, patting my shoulder. “This happens sometimes, honey. Talk to your doctor about meds.” She discreetly slid a […]
Arghhh! Kids in public… Amiright? I’m not talking about your kids. I can’t really tell when other people’s kids are misbehaving. I’m usually zeroed in with laser accuracy on my two. One of my children was born with the “don’t so much as have a dirty diaper in public” gene, […]