mom life

No Shame Parenting

Mommy wars.  Ever heard the term? It first became popular when writer Leslie Morgan Steiner penned the book “Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families”, but in recent years it has been used to describe a multitude of parenting debates.  Formula feeding…

The One Kid Dilemma

I am lucky enough to be part of a huge (virtual) group of women who have been friends since we were pregnant.  We met on a site called “The Bump” back in 2011 because we all had babies due in the same month.  Some time later our group migrated over…

The Love of A Mother

Poor Little C.  Yesterday when she woke up, she was complaining about having “something in me eye” (she talks like a pirate sometimes) and kept rubbing her little lids.  By mid day it was clear based on her blood shot and gooey globes that we were dealing with a case…

Kid-Approved Mangonanaberry Popsicles

Ahhhhhhhh battling another flu.  I spent most of yesterday wiping a very runny little person’s nose, visiting our favorite pediatrician, taking temperatures and doling out lots of advil and snuggles.  I swear, preschool is going to be the end of me.  Little C and I just can not catch a…

Lessons in Letting Go & Being Present

You know what I did the other night, as I drove home from work? I left the day behind. I shed it slowly on the drive home…I left pieces of it scattered on Ocean Park Blvd., strewn across the ever-crowded 405, fragments on the side of the 90.  It wasn’t…