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I drink in the smell of the freshly bathed and diapered newborn. The little girl’s hand is curled around my pinky finger. Watching her sleep bundled in my arms makes me wonder if my daughters were ever that tiny. It seems like a lifetime ago. The baby opens her eyes and lets out a huge [...]

Cradling my newborn baby, smelling her sweet clean scent, I am fuming on the inside. In the next room my husband snores like a freight train while I am stuck here trying to calm her. The room is dark except for the night light and the clock radio revealing that it is now 2am. I [...]

Looking around the toy-crowded room, hearing all the animated chatter, I feel like I am home. Only it is not my home but that of a play date. My two-year-old and four-year-old daughters are running crazy with their friends. My eyes drink in their delight. I hope I have learned to change my background for [...]

The lights in the living room are dim. My feet are up on the coffee table and a chilled glass of wine in hand. The room is quiet. The monitor is perched beside me emoting the childrens’ snores. My darling husband is downstairs playing his favorite computer game. My new happy place is having the [...]

The bright morning light awakens a new day. I am standing in the kitchen, heavy hearted, facing the calendar. With a long deep cleansing breath, I flip the calendar from April to May. The date stares out at me as if it had a spotlight on it. 26 years ago I celebrated my last Mother’s [...]

“Mommy, why can’t I have chocolate now?” as my four-year-olds scrunchy face is staring at me. I think she is trying to stare me down. My mind races for an answer she might actually hear. I tried simple ‘no’ and that backfired to here. “You cannot have chocolate for breakfast because it would not taste [...]

 “Hurry up.” I instructed my three-year-old daughter. “I don’t want to be late”. I packed the stroller to the breaking point and we trudged through the narrow glass door (barely!), I got my paperwork in order as we inched our way through the line. Finally it was my turn and I scooched the stroller off [...]

We have been vegetarians for so long. I went through my two pregnancies being vegetarian. We are raising our kids’ vegetarian. I will serve meat for them should they ever ask. I have asked what vegetarians eat at Easter. Here are some ideas to help you if you are hosting, or are the vegetarian: Consider [...]

Gasp! It is in this moment I ache for help for just one hour. An eye of the clock blasts the fact I have only one hour till deadline. My two-year-old bouncing on my lap, zooming her car. With every other second the question of ‘why?’ comes from my four-year-old who is watching Sesame Street. [...]

“He ran off to play with his new friends.” I close the book smiling at my daughters who are snuggled on either side of me. “Can we go play mommy?” my four-year-old inquires. I nod yes as they scamper off. We are at our local bookstore’s kids’ corner for a weekly date. I began reading [...]