Earlier this month, I started speaking to a counselor again to help me with my mental health. This is the fourth one I've had in my 30+ years on this planet. Coming back to counseling was easier for me...
As summer winds down and the routine of a new school year begins to shift into place, parents are busy purchasing books, supplies, lunch boxes, backpacks, and clothing, as well as filling out forms and tying up loose ends....
Dear Weary Mom,
There is something beautiful about spring. After the cold and death that surrounds us in winter, spring is the promise of new life. The air is filled with an unspoken excitement; the promise of new beginnings. It...
BurlingtonVT Moms Blog is partnering with Vermont Midwives Association to bring you our latest series titled “How I Became a Mother” in honor of Mother’s Day. Each of us has a unique journey on how we got here…here being...
I love talking about love.
Love is wide blue sky simplicity, and ocean deep complexity. Love is low burning when pain comes stalking cold, and love consumes in passion, wild and white.
Love is a loosening of a grip, and love...
It's that time of year. School is winding down and temps are heating up.
Suns out, guns out and parents from all walks of life are blocking the light from the windows in an attempt to convince their sweaty, overtired little bundles...
Meal Planning and prepping is probably the number one thing you can do to make meal time go smoother during the busy week.
There are lots of ways to do it and with Pinterest you can have endless possibilities to...
While at the library the other day, I read a really cute book called Children Make Terrible Pets by Peter Brown. When I returned home later that day, I realized something.
Children also make terrible roommates.
If you live with children, your bathroom...
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I was glad to put 2016 to bed.
Yes, there were some good times, but it seemed as though the world finally gave in to its baser chaotic instincts. So many...
Confession: I didn't even know watching TV was "bad for you" until I became a mom. One minute I was binge-watching Downton Abbey for days on end and the next minute I had a newborn in my arms and...
I’m just getting back from a girls’ night out with some friends, and I was reminded tonight like I am after most nights spent out, that friends are really what make the world go round!
As moms, we spend...
Over the summer, the July 4th holiday brought my extended family together in a joyful (and extremely hot) reunion on the lake. Two cousins came with their one year-old daughters. Both were smiley, happy, squirmy little bundles of heaven....
In what felt like the blink of an eye, I was back to work after having my second baby - a daughter we have lovingly named Andrea, a reverence to my late mom, Ann.
Now, when I say a...
Recently, I was reading a fellow mom blogger’s post about keeping adult friendships alive and it got me thinking about female friendship in light of my recent divorce.
Divorce is weird. You were once a part of a pair and...
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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...
