Parenting

{Click image above for more beautiful birth stories in this touching series.} Mary's Story As a professional birth and postpartum doula, the myriad blessings and challenges of motherhood are my life’s fascinations. The beautiful and brave stories shared in this series...

Let me know if you need anything. As a mom, how many times do you hear that phrase?  Or even say it yourself to other moms?  For me, A LOT.  And how many times do you take a person up...

{Click image above for more posts in this series!} This past August marked the beginning of our first child's "school" days, but if you know anything about me, you know the arts and crafts have been going on for quite...

Confession :: My twins are 3 1/2 years old, and it has only been in the last 6 months or so that we've made a concerted effort to eat together as a family. I know. Some of you are probably shaking...

I'm just gonna put this out there - it's hard to make friends as an adult!  Once you are out of school, there isn't an obvious way to establish new relationships.  It can be really awkward and hard at...

Well, it has been A WEEK. You know the ones. The weeks where you question if you managed to do anything productive, took the quickest showers of your life {if you got one at all}, skidded into the preschool...

Sarah's Story Before I start, have you been reading this whole series on How I Became a Mother? If not, you must go back and read through them. The stories are absolutely amazing, and raw and true and real and inspiring....

So how’s it been going taking pics of your kiddos since checking out some of my favorite photo apps?  Getting any better?  Legs hurting from squatting down?  It’s okay.  Sometimes that’s just how it goes.  But if you want...

Nothing like starting my first "real" post on this little space of the interwebs with a topic like Homeschooling. Gracious. I hope this doesn't put your eyeballs on auto-roll to the back of your head.  A few sweet moms...

We are BEYOND excited that our very own contributor Lauren Perkins is one of four finalists in Live with Kelly and Michael's Unstoppable Moms Contest.  We could go on...and on...and on... about how extraordinary this mama really is, and...