One common theme among my friends and myself is that we constantly struggle to find the motivation to do whatever it is we are wanting to do that requires work. The get up and go is hard to come by when your knee deep in dirty diapers, work schedules, laundry, grocery shopping and all the …
Sometimes, I get completely overwhelmed when I start to think about some of the things I have to do – work, family, life, etc. I start to dwell and worry about all the ten thousand what-ifs. What if I don’t know what I am doing? What if they don’t like me? What if I can’t …
Most breastfeeding moms I talk to mention the struggle they have with wanting to lose weight while also maintaining their milk supply. This, by far, has been the hardest part of breastfeed (once we made our way past latching issues). Women are constantly under pressure to look a certain way and to lose the baby …
Breastfeeding and weight loss go together like peanut butter and jelly, at least according to anyone who claims to have known a mom who breastfed. “The weight will fall right off” they say. Right, ok. Sure, you burn more calories producing food for your baby – you are still feeding two people. But, the rumor that …
For as long as I can remember, I have struggled to find an eye makeup remover that doesn’t leave a greasy, nasty residue that makes it impossible to see for about 15 minutes. But, a few months ago I discovered Make Up Forever’s Sens’Eyes and it has been life changing. With a few quick swipes, …
We’ve all heard the big lie … well at least those moms who opted to breastfeed their babes. You’ll burn crazy calories. The weight will melt off. Yeah. Right. Well, I suppose this was kind of true for me, at least early on. I was 10 pounds below my pregnancy weight when I went back …
I have a lot of irrational fears … flying, elevators, snakes, heights, tire blowouts on the interstate, building or bridge collapses, earthquakes, birds … seriously, I could go on for days of all the ridiculous things I am afraid of. As a new mom, there are a million new fears that I won’t even go …
Midnight is a bitch of an hour. It’s dark. It’s deathly silent (well, until your baby wakes up coughing and screaming). It’s brutally honest. And it’s in the dark, honest silence where I often find myself asking life’s biggest questions as I gently rock my baby boy back to sleep. I rub my cheek on …
Most breastfeeding moms hate pumping, but I look forward to it sometimes. While I am at work, it is often my only quiet time. At home, it is my alone time. It is ironic that doing something for someone else is what I consider my alone time. That’s right … I find it relaxing to …
I mom. I work. I wife. I school. I bake. Not necessarily in that order. But, I don’t clean (often). I don’t laundry (at least not often enough). I don’t cook (every night). In other words, I don’t do it all and sometimes, I don’t do what I do well enough to qualify as doing it. …
