Don’t Love Me, Love Yourself

I have no idea how to breastfeed a baby properly. I’ve been doing it for 21 months, and I do it my way, and it works. I have no idea how to create healthy lunches that look like snowmen, or ninjas, or letters of the alphabet. I feed my kids what I can, and hope that…

28 Days Of Play: Love Comes Crashing In

“Hiiiiiiiii-YAAAAAAAAAA” he yells, as he careens around the corner, pops up onto the back of the couch, and catapults himself into my lap on the living room floor. A tangle of wiry, thin 5 year old limbs collide with mine as I try to catch him, my arms instinctively wrapping around his back to brace…

How Are Those Resolutions Treating You?

15 Ways To Lose Weight in the New Year!  10 Ways That I Will Be A More Present Mother in 2015!  479 Tips To Shedding The Pounds and Shedding The Shame! Well Happy New Year, parents everywhere.  If the magazine covers and the Facebook posts don’t have you feeling terrible about yourself, then perhaps you…

Complications Of Motherhood

  Thrilled to be published on Mamalode this month, talking about whether or not we exist beyond our children. There are goldfish crackers ground into your carpet. There is a small streak of peanut butter on the side of your sofa that matches the height of a toddler who just earned the right to walk…

My Breasts Belong To Me

“34DD” she said, and smiled. I looked at her across the brightly lit dressing room.  “You’re kidding me. Are you sure?”  From his lookout point in the stroller, my tiny wisp of a 1 month old started to cry.  “I’ll be back with some options for you to try on” she laughed, and closed the…

I Support You: Be Part Of The Solution Nov 1st-7th, 2014

Sup·port transitive verb \sə-ˈpȯrt\ : to agree with or approve of (someone or something) : to show that you approve of (someone or something) by doing something : to give help or assistance to (someone or something) Full Definition of SUPPORT 1: to endure bravely or quietly :  bear 2 a (1) :  to promote the…