No One Prepared Me For the Realities of Mom Dating
The most enjoyable part of being single used to be a Friday night out with friends, followed by a Saturday of shopping, lunching, and napping. (Side…
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Dear Mama: Find Your Person
Ladies, if I can offer one piece of advice from the world of motherhood, it is this: find your person. Not the cutest diaper bag. Not the sleekest…
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Maintaining Friendships After Kids Can Be So Hard
Friendship is hard. Trying to sustain a friendship after motherhood is even harder. I’m in my early thirties with two kids, and I find myself…
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The Greatest Gift You Can Give Yourself is To Find Your People
If you do nothing else this year, find your people. I don’t mean your “I am good. How have you been?” people. I mean your “I don’t have to…
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Welcome, Friends: You Are Family Here
A friend sent me a text the other day thanking me for lunch. I read it twice because we hadn’t met for lunch that day, and I certainly didn’t…
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Make Room For Mom Friends in Your Life—You Need Them More Than You Know
The hardest stage to keep close friendships is literally the one we all need it most. Mom friendships are important while raising children for so…
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Mom Friends Are the Best Friends
When I moved to a new city with my family and my kids started school, I found myself immersed in a whole new gang of friends. These weren’t my old…
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Mama, Stop Apologizing For Your Real Life
Not too long ago, I got the opportunity to escape my tall tower and have a girls’ dinner with some new friends. We spent the evening eating and…
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When it Comes to Friends, it’s Better to Have Four Quarters Than a Hundred Pennies
When it comes to friendship and acclimating to new environments, my daughter and I had very different childhood experiences. By her sophomore year,…
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True Friendship is a Gift
There have certainly been times in my adult life I felt isolated. There have been seasons when, outside of my marriage, I felt like I was going it…
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