Monthly Archives: January 2012

What would happen if every time the words mom guilt floated through our minds, we replaced them with the words mom empowerment? Huh? I hear you ask. How can empowerment replace guilt? I’ve learned it can. I don’t need to define mom guilt for you, right? We probably all know that crappy feeling that is [...]

Prologue My three year old daughter is growing out her bangs. Every day for preschool, she insists on the following hair accessories: The blue scrunchie (mmm, I really must remember to wash it one weekend).   The colorful hairband.   The shiny, green clip – her favorite, even though part of the green coating has [...]

Today’s post is inspired by this week’s Monday Listicles theme. Greta, from the wonderfully named blog Not Enough Patience and Never Enough Jewelry, suggested we confess ten things we said we would NEVER do but caught ourselves doing it. Well, I couldn’t think of ten confessions but here is my list of ten things that ten years ago [...]

It is a small gentle move, the first touch between a new mom and her baby, but it is a giant leap for each and every woman; so giant, it deserves its own lexicon. For those of you who didn’t catch this post first time round, it has been revamped for the new year and [...]

Two weeks into my new life as a mother, a friend of the family came up to me and whispered with a smile, “Isn’t motherhood wonderful?” “Yes!” I replied dutifully, knowing that wonderful was not exactly the adjective that sprung to my exhausted mind at that moment. With time, I understood that the family friend [...]