When I found out that my second child was going to be a girl, I immediately worried that she would grow up to face the same problems I did as a teenager.
Perhaps my biggest struggle at that time was...
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To quote every mom at some point during her kids' formative years: I'm not a short order cook. If I'm...
My life as a single mom isn't all heartache and sorrow. It also isn't just cupcakes and daisies either.
I make hard choices constantly, and even when I solicit input from my trusted and valued advisers (this sounds so much...
Everywhere we turn there is another back to school piece of mail, open house, shopping lists, and fall festivals knocking on our door. But at the same time temperatures are rising, air conditioners or fans blasting (well sometimes), and...
One of the best days of my life was the day I realized I had a choice in how I lived my life.
Up until that point I’d been living a life that felt scripted and doing basically the...
Doula support? YES
More and more individuals and families are choosing to use the support of a Doula during their childbearing year, and specifically during the birthing process. I am a certified professional midwife, certified doula, and mother who used...
With school fast-approaching, many of us may be thinking of ways to provide delicious and healthy lunch and snack foods to our kids that will carry them through the day. You don't want to send them off with a...
August is here. The time to sort through clothes to figure out what fits and what doesn’t (not to mention what’s fashionable or “so last year”) and to make the annual back to school shopping trip for all your...
Growing up our family never had the misfortune of experiencing lice. I pitied the few that did from afar. There was a stigma attached to lice which we all know: it only happens to poor kids, dirty kids, kids...
Since I gave up soda and sugary drinks long ago, I mostly drink water or polar seltzer now. However, some hot summer days you just want something else. Since I'm pregnant and have Gestational Diabetes, it has to be...
When I was a new mom, the thing I wanted more than anything else was a working set of opposable thumbs. I wanted to pick up my magical bundle of daughter without yelping in pain. I wanted to change...
Towards the end of 2013, I was feeling pretty pleased with myself!
I had spent a good portion of the summer getting into the best shape I had ever been in (take that High School self!), and shaving down my...
When I first moved to Vermont nine years ago, I decided that I wanted to start eating better.
I slowly started cooking meals that required fresh ingredients, and not just something from a box or a can. After buying a...
WhenI first found out I was pregnant again, I was thrilled. We’d just been through a loss of a pregnancy in January and I really had no idea what kind of journey lay ahead. But in the back of...
In + Around Vermont
The UVM Men’s Soccer National Championship Matters to Vermont Families
Late into the evening on Monday, December 16, I lay in bed while my three kids were asleep, watching the Men’s National Collegiate Soccer...
