From time to time I like to make sure I’m being honest on here as part of my Let’s Be Real Campaign. Numerous people have asked me how things are going now that there are two H-G Munchkins in the world, and my answer has usually been, “pretty good”. In…
It’s past midnight as I write this, and I’m finding myself dragging my feet. I should be crawling off to bed to get some much needed rest, but I don’t want to wake up to the inevitability of a hungry baby, or a restless toddler, or the realization that…
Maybe I use the word “confession” too much, but this e-space of mine can be a place to lay it all out, or at least hint at things to see if others are in the same boat as me. Have you seen these campaigns around the interwebs? Ending the Mommy…
It’s not that I have an Open Door Policy when it comes to the bathroom. Believe me, part of any Momcation for me is the thrill of peeing by myself. But in this season of life, I have young children that are in that odd place of still learning personal boundaries and perfecting their…
Picture this: you’re a barista at Starbucks working the drive-thru. A car pulls up, you ask for their order, and you hear a throat clear on your headset. The voice that gives their order is overly-chipper, trying too hard at a bright tone. When they roll up to the window to…
I have a story to tell, but the thing is… sometimes you get to a point that you can’t tell a full story because it belongs to someone else. Sometimes your children grow past the baby and toddler stage, and become these kids with identities, and friends, and privacy, and…
Forget about brown paper packages. That string? Yeah, don’t want it. One of my favorite things right now is Vulnerability. You read that right: Vulnerability. When you’ve had a crap day, and you’re not digging for a mask to cover it. When you were just crying in the grocery…
Life is like a bag of roasted pistachios, as I like to say. Or at least, that’s what I’m starting to say now. I see myself as having that smooth outer shell; I tend to be a people pleaser in order to keep things going smoothly; I like…
I was served up a heaping slice of humble pie a number of weeks ago. But instead of it being a juicy, ooey-gooey, pastry crusted pile of quick-learn-this-lesson, it was a bunch of tiny bugs laying eggs and nibbling on my scalp. Ferociously nibbling. You see, I have a…
Seeking out mental health support has a lot of shame surrounding it. Somehow we’ve built up a culture that says asking for help says you’re weak, or if you do seek help, then you’d better be quiet about it. Make sure it’s a quick fix; get in, get out, and make…