Category: The Mom Journey
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Keeping Calm During the Holiday Rush
My family is one of the biggest things I’m thankful for this time of year. I can’t remember or picture what the holidays meant or looked like to me before I had my kids. It was like everything that came before was a complete and utter blur. As if the…
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Listen & Don’t Judge: Mom Edition
I remember being a kid and thinking about how difficult things were at the time. Living in that moment and thinking how things would never get better, being stuck in the negativity and my world is ending mentality. Every other week, month or year would be a different situation, yet…
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Necessity of Girls Trips
I had seen a comedian reel a while back where he was making jokes about how women live and breathe girls trips. That women constantly plan, countdown and take active measures to go away and do something fun, while men don’t tend to have the same motivation or want to…
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Parenting Woes
Parenting is insane. Sometimes you think it’s black and white, while the majority of it is about staying consistently in the gray. You have set notions of things you want your kids to know, learn and understand, while feeling as though you have to correct and make up for things…
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Finding the Good Within the Crazy!
It has been a little over a week since I’ve slept well through the night. I’ve been tossing and turning for hours, attempting to read or watch a show and my mind won’t stop running in circles. It’s one of the most aggravating things. My brain has been going a…
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Reoccurring Nightmares
Whenever I have a question or am curious about something, I do the best I can to find a solution or an answer. One thing I’ve never understood are dreams, or better yet nightmares. Sometimes I don’t even know I have them and can’t remember a single thing and other…
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Boundaries: You always have a choice!
Hello, my name is Jamie and I am a recovering people pleaser. I have always bent over backwards to make other people happy and almost always at my expense. I believed my value was based on how I treated others and how they viewed me. I needed to be needed,…
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Navigating the Special Education System
Special education is one of those fields that I find a little two-sided based on the view. It can be a safe haven or quite ominous. It can act as a saving grace for some and a constant uphill battle for others. I’ve decided that the special education experience comes…
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Tips for Helping Kids Budget
One of the hardest concepts to teach children is money and I feel like it’s because home is the only place you’ll learn it. A long time ago, schools would teach budgeting and how to write a check, you’d learn about calculating tip based on percentages, but now you don’t…
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Mental Health Struggles
Life has been pretty good to me. I’ve been able to work through a lot of things that have made me the strong, capable person I am today. I’ve become more confident in my abilities and figuring out who I am. I’ve made some major life changes to ensure that…
The Poor Mom Revolution 