Category: The Mom Journey
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The Birthday Blog
It’s official, today is my 36th birthday! I’ve never really had a problem with getting old and didn’t give too much thought about it. When I was younger all I wanted to be was slightly older to be able to do more things, go more places, but the older I…
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End Of An Era
You know… making decisions can be tough. They push you, scare you and sometimes make you question everything. If you are anything like me, impulsive would never be a word I’d use to describe myself. I’m someone that finishes whatever I start, works incredibly hard to see things through, and…
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5 Unexpected Benefits of Sharing my Truth
Let’s be honest, I never thought I’d start a blog let alone share all my thoughts, feelings, failures and stresses for the world to hear. These are things that are super personal to me that I’ve shared with a few trusted individuals over the years, but I’m slowly realizing that…
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Life as a Working Parent
It’s hard to imagine what parenting will be like until it happens to you. All the hypotheticals in the world wouldn’t prepare you for the sleepless nights, toddler tantrums, managing your emotions alongside your kids, and unexpected stresses that happen along the way. Then add having to go back to…
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Appreciating your partner
Parenthood and relationships are hard. They are messy and stressful and overwhelming. We do our best to balance everything, but at some point things will start to fall. When this happens, we tend to lean on those we love around us which most often are our significant others. In my…
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Am I A Good Parent?
Every so often my husband and I ask ourselves, “Are we good parents?” This past weekend was one of those times. Sometimes I feel like I’m just going through the everyday motions. I’m exhausted, making the never-ending lunches, doing homework, running to soccer events and sometimes I forget to live…
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Categorizing Friendships
Friendships really are vital to survival. I mean let’s be real, when you’re in the thick of life and everything’s going crazy, who doesn’t need someone that you can go out to lunch with, grab a coffee and chat, or go for winery date on a random weeknight because you…
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Feelings the Lows
This week I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to write about until it literally hit me in the face. In previous blogs, I’ve talked a lot about different situations and things I’ve gone through that caused depression, stress or anxiety along the way. I mean we all go through…
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Working Mentality
As the saying goes… money makes the world go round. You need a job in order to make the money to live the way you want to live. It’s a cycle that we’ve always been taught that the harder you work the better the outcome. With the rise of inflation…
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Will Parenting Ever Get Easier?
As parents we do our best to teach and protect our kids from the very beginning. We pride ourselves when they reach important milestones, try new foods, use their manners and are respectful to those around them. As they get older, all the experiences they have around them begin to…
The Poor Mom Revolution 