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Dear Kids, Always Remember How Close You Are Right Now

Right now, you’re best friends. You beg to come with me when it’s time to wake sissy up from her nap, and her first words every morning are…

I have been a mother for seven whole years and a caregiver to our little fireball for three years. Going into motherhood, I didn’t expect to have a…

I used to grab him every morning at 5 a.m. when he’d cry out for me. I’d trudge my tired body to his nursery, I’d scoop him up, and I’d carry…

7 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 8 p.m. Midnight during a sleep cycle interruption. 4 a.m. 6 a.m. No these are not times my baby woke up for a feeding or from…

I was frantically scribbling away on the classic pro/con list, desperate and frustrated as each column found a way to even out the other side when…

We tend to expect a happy ending. That’s the way we’re programmed. That’s the way it works in the movies. The happy ending helps us negate the…

I’m a mama to three. My first was deceptively easy. A calm baby, an easy-going toddler, and a sweetheart of a preschooler. She was the reason I had…

My almost-4-year-old snapped this photo of me. She swiped my phone off the couch while I was nursing her baby brother. Her little fingers moved fast…

Homeschool lesson of the day: when a mom says she needs a break.⁣ 1. A break means a BREAK. B-R-E-A-K. That doesn’t mean two minutes of locking…

I often hear having young kids described as “being in the trenches,” and soldiers often express a camaraderie they feel with other soldiers they…