Wednesday Wins Wednesday Wins: The Simple Joys That Make Mom Life Magical It’s Wednesday, and if you’re a mom, you know that mid-week slump all too well. The laundry pile is growing, the kids are bouncing off the walls, and dinner feels like a daily miracle. But here’s my secret: those ‘chaotic’ moments? They’re the […]
Every March 17th our neighborhood goes a little wild with green. Green shirts, green drinks, shamrocks on everything. I love it. But this year, while I was getting the kids ready, I kept thinking about a different kind of green , the kind that’s been happening quietly in our house for the past year or
I grew up watching my mom stretch a dollar in ways I didn’t fully appreciate until I had my own family to feed. She clipped coupons. She bought in bulk. She knew which store had the best price on which thing and she planned accordingly. It seemed like a lot of work at the time.
Every January I used to write down the same goal: eat better, move more, drink more water. Vague, optimistic, forgotten by February. This year I tried something different. Instead of big abstract goals, I focused on one thing at a time. Starting with what I put in my body every day. Not a diet. Not
Last week my son asked me why I was always on my phone. He’s six. He didn’t ask it accusingly — kids that age don’t have an agenda, they just say what they see. But it landed hard anyway. Because the honest answer was: I’m trying to hold everything together. The lists. The schedules. The
I remember the exact moment I stopped pretending everything was fine financially. It was a Tuesday night. Adam and I were sitting at the kitchen table after the kids went to bed, looking at the same spreadsheet we’d looked at every month for years. The numbers weren’t dramatic — we weren’t in crisis. But they
There’s a moment most moms have — usually somewhere between the third load of laundry and wiping down the kitchen for the second time before noon — where you look around and think: is all of this actually safe? I had that moment about two years ago. My youngest had just started crawling, and I
