After six years of silence, Adele finds her voice, offering up the ultimate divorced moms’ anthem in “Easy On Me,” the first single from her new album 30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ASj1L6_sY
This morning, I woke up to a deluge of news articles about...
I’m not a big sports fan. I watch the Olympics, but not with any regularity. I tune into the World Series, maybe every other year. And the only reason I know that the World Cup is held every 4...
In recent years, since I became a mother twice over, and despite many changes to my body, I’ve embraced my sexuality more than ever before. What is my trick, my magic approach to having a great sex life with...
Spoiler Alert- Sam and I are not getting a divorce.
However, that doesn't mean we don't talk about divorce.
Let me explain. Both of us come from families with divorce. We are also a couple that got married at the ripe old...
Today is our 15th Valentine's Day together, and next month will bring our 14th wedding anniversary.
This has been a wild and crazy ride, to put it mildly. Shortly after we stood in front of family and friends and became...
Valentine’s Day. It’s a day for love and romance. A day for kisses and hugs, and wearing your heart on your sleeve. It’s a day when people to give big bouquets of flowers and giant boxes of chocolates to...
There’s no use crying over spilled milk.
Those seven words have been a life’s goal of mine. I have tried my hardest to not let the small stresses of life impact my mood. But try as we might, my husband...
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...
This message is brought to you by a divorced mom who would just like to get it out there that divorced life as a parent is not glamorous. Maybe no one thought that to begin with. But I want...
When I got divorced, learning how to talk about it with my son did not come easily.
When I first told my 10-year-old son about becoming a contributing writer for BVTMB, he immediately told me “Mom! You should write about...
DIY projects, or, for the uninitiated, do-it-yourself projects, are my current addiction, and I don’t see them going away anytime soon.
I don’t know if it’s my age or my way of dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, but I can’t...
If you’re like my husband and me, you know how tricky it is to manage a household budget with kids. We are very organized when it comes to planning and shopping for groceries, maintaining a stock of household items,...
I love when my husband gets mad. He immediately screams, jumps on his phone to post something aggressive, writes a scathing letter to the newspaper editor, tells you why you’re wrong and he’s right… you name it.
Just kidding. This...
My husband Karl tells me that the first time his parents left him for a weekend away he stayed with his grandparents. He had such a great time that, according to his mother, when she met him at the...
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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...
