As a modern mama-to-be you are bombarded with thousands of items to make your life just a little easier.  It is so difficult to...
Deciding to live a full, healthy life isn’t easy. For me, it took almost seven years. I love to eat and I’m lazy. But,...
There's nothing I love more than seeing moms helping other moms. I can think of numerous times that another mom has eased my burden in...
Awhile back I posted about the comparison game that all of us moms tend to play. It's so easy to get caught in the...
Over the summer, the July 4th holiday brought my extended family together in a joyful (and extremely hot) reunion on the lake. Two cousins...
Confession time: I'm not one of those mommas that feels immediately connected to her baby upon finding out she is pregnant. I'm excited, for sure,...
Since my experience of childbirth and motherhood was immediately followed by the twin whammies of separation and divorce, then endless months of not sleeping...
When I was offered the opportunity to participate in a postpartum/pelvic floor yoga class presented by The Iyengar Yoga Center of Vermont, a little...
My second pregnancy was high risk but it took me more than a year to confront and internalize that rather basic fact. I acquired...
I love babywearing and I like to workout. Wondering how the two go together? I didn't think of it at first either, but here's how...
To my beautiful daughter, Two years ago I was eagerly anticipating your arrival into this world. I was 6 days overdue, super uncomfortable, and so...
I’ve always defined the word “scar” as the visible mark left by a wound or injury.  But the dictionary defines it as “the mark...
While I stood in line at the grocery store, a lady behind me who looked to be in her sixties kept gazing at my...
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...

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The UVM Men’s Soccer National Championship Matters to Vermont Families

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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...