Making friends is tricky business. While we worry about sending our littles off to school or daycare, hoping they make friends, hoping they choose kindness and hoping that others are kind to them, we never really consider that as adults, we’re in the same position. Making mom-friends is really tricky business. Interacting with a mom you’ve never met is like the first day of high school all over ... View Post
Picking Battles
Have you ever been arguing with your toddler and suddenly realize ‘I’m literally fighting with a 3-year-old?’ I have, many times. It’s a realization that brings you back down to earth pretty quickly. This person is 3-years-old and I’m arguing with her about what shoes she’s going to wear today? Umm, no. This will not be my life. This is where picking battles comes into play. Not every battle is ... View Post
The Ultimate Toddler Holiday Gift Guide
It’s that time of year, friends, when every blogger on the planet is publishing their holiday gift guides! I’m not hating over here. I LOVE scanning the holiday sales and browsing through my favorite bloggers top recommendations. I LOVE it. So, naturally, being new to the mommy-blogging world, I decided I need a piece of this pie but with a Mommy Diatribes twist. Check out the Mommy Diatribes ... View Post
The Thankful Mommy
What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving? If we thought about it, I’m sure many of our answers would be the same. We’re thankful for healthy, happy children. We’re thankful for family and friends. We’re thankful for roofs over our head and food on the table. The list is long, as it should be. But. There are also other things we’re thankful for - the not so obvious things. Things that aren’t ... View Post
The Motherhood Miss List
Motherhood is all consuming. The worry, the heartache, the bliss, the good and the bad of it all. It will literally take over your entire life if you allow it. So, what do we miss about our pre-baby lives? Well, the list is long but for good reason. Check out the Miss List… We miss sleep. We miss restful, REM, sleep. Sleeping next to baby monitors? Not restful but stressful. As contradictory as ... View Post
Bedtime ‘Routine’
Bedtime. Such a contradiction. We wait for it and wait for it. There are some nights that we literally count the seconds until we can say (or yell) ‘it’s bedtime!’ When it’s finally here, and we can walk up the stairs toward a few hours of freedom, it becomes the most hectic and chaotic point of the entire day. In a perfect world, bedtime would be peaceful. It would be the winding down ... View Post