Now that I'm in my last month of pregnancy, I've come up with some pregnancy hacks to help make my life easier both now...
One day, while trying unsuccessfully to pee alone, my daughter, two at the time, asked me what a tampon was.
She was holding it...
I stand in the kitchen washing breakfast dishes, listening to the sounds of a household getting organized. My husband packs helmets and goggles into ski bags....
"Do you plan on having any more children, Maria?" my OBGYN asked me from behind her surgical mask. "I realize this may not be...
"I can't believe she's already 1!" I scrawled in thank you notes after my daughter's recent first birthday.
Lies! I can absolutely believe my baby...
My whole life, my mom always worked.
It wasn’t until I was a little bit older that I started to realize some moms didn’t. That...
I made it four weeks between appointments. Four whole weeks. Considering I found out about our pregnancy when I was just two weeks pregnant and...
There's this hidden gem of profound interaction.
At the most unexpected of places.
A Weight Watchers meeting.
In Williston.
On Sunday mornings.
A cold, hard, fact: I am a...
I joined Facebook in 2008. My daughter, my youngest child, was nine months old at the time. The first album I uploaded to my...
Sometimes, clarity is found in quiet…in absence.
Somedays are full of stillness and I find myself spending more time being mindful of all that is...
A few years before I even began to think about having a baby, I went with a friend of mine to help her do...
Its 7:45 and I’m heading out the door to bike the kids to school. I’m wearing a hat, a long down coat, mittens, and...
It took me a long time to be able to find a way to convey the bright side of living in a multi-generational household.
It...
I seem to have a lot of friends whose houses are always spotless and organized. They could have Better Homes & Gardens show up...
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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...
