Ashli Brehm, Author at Her View From Home

How to Put Your Children to Bed in 46 Easy Steps

It was time. It had to happen. We’d had a good run at pouring our children into bed at 11:30 p.m., sweaty, sticky, and exhausted from their…

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Charles Dickens. Smart guy, that one. Over the last several years, I’ve repeated those words…

“You’re gonna miss this . . .” I heard it all the time from other moms. From strangers at the store. As I was a harried…

Nine. My oldest boy flipped the calendar another year recently. And he turned nine. What in the sam hill has happened to the tiny baby who screamed…

I grew up going to church. Nearly every Sunday, we would get dressed in our Sunday best. We would drive the couple blocks to the small white…

Stay little, my dear. I whisper it as I watch you. Digging in the sand. Laughing in the sunshine. No longer a baby. But not yet a school-aged…

“We need to get together . . . “ Have you said these words? Likely. Likely you say them in a text once a week. Or on a phone call. Or in…

Oh, girl. I know you don’t know how it feels. But when you call me “second mom” I get a sort of butterfly feeling in my stomach. Because I know…

I shaved my face the other day. I was ridiculously excited about it, too. I anticipated the arrival of a tool that other women of a certain age…

I get the question a lot: “What will you do about work?” A lot. Mostly from people who know my personality. From people who know that I…