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This post isn’t sponsored–I just like working out! But if you use my ClassPass link, we’ll each get $40. If you join right now, you’ll get your first month free. I was pretty active throughout both of my pregnancies, but the postpartum …

I’m not any everything-needs-to-be-perfect mom. I’m just a strung out WAHM who is kinda drowning a little bit. -Allison Cooper, "When Mom Burnout is Your Reality" Allison Cooper of Project Motherhood and I have been friends for years. Our husbands, Chris and …

Happy New Year, y’all! New Year’s is my favorite holiday. I’m a very type-A person by nature, so I love anything that has to do with goal setting. But there’s something special about the promise of a new year that has everyone …

Ironically enough, when my husband and I first knew that we wanted to have a baby, being a freelancer seemed like the worst idea ever. After all, grown-ups had grown-up jobs, right? They had benefits and salaries and paid leave. I spent …

Photo courtesy of FreePik.com. I feel like in the last couple of weeks, I have been subject to a near-perfect storm of fuckery that has conspired to make me as hot and miserable (in all senses of the …

Photo by Janko Ferlič on Unsplash. With just eight weeks left to go, I find myself thinking a lot about the last stage of pregnancy–birth. It’s the last hurdle to jump before we get to meet our new …

It’s very, very early in the morning. My husband and I are sitting in our living room, quietly scrolling through our phones. Despite our best efforts to stay positive, cheerful and productive, we have had extraordinarily trying days. We are emotionally and …

I don’t know if it’s that I’m weeks away from my thirtieth birthday, or that I’m heavily pregnant with my second child, but I feel my adulthood keenly. When I was 25 years old and expecting my daughter, I felt like I …

Twelve weeks to go. Something about hitting this particular milestone feels super-significant to me. It isn’t just that, by most reckonings, 28 weeks is the start of the third trimester (although that is certainly in the back of my mind too). It …

My Mother’s Day started off in the most achingly beautiful way with a text message from my oldest step-daughter, Kayla. She sent me “Happy mother’s day. I love and appreciate you for everything I hope your sunday is awesome!!” As I read …

Every parent in every generation has a different set of tools that they rely upon, and well, technology hasn’t always been kind parents in the 21st-century. Because of the prevalence that screens and other advances have in our lives, we’ve become arguably …

I love a good sale, especially when it’s on something that my family really, really needs. So I had to pop online to share the amazing offer that’s going on for one of my favorite businesses, Cord Blood Registry. Cord Blood Registry, …

Photo courtesy of Damany Campbell Photography. I am a naturally affectionate person, and I love my kids like you wouldn’t believe. I was the baby of my family—the youngest out of all my grandmother’s grandchildren—so I never grew up around really little …

Anyone who knows me knows that I do not cook. I just don’t. It’s ironic, really, because for a really really really long time I wanted to open a restaurant. I love and appreciate food, I really do. I’m just…lazy. Plus, I …

Mommy. Mommy. My head hurts. My knee hurts. My elbow. Mommy. I'm so sorry, Mommy. I don't feel good. Mommy, it hurrrtttts! No, Mommy, I don't want it! No, ohhh, my diaper…Mommy. This has been our soundtrack. For weeks. Not days, weeks. …

Image courtesy of Sideshow Collectibles. I'm a mom now, so I could start this letter by saying how I have three little girls and how it's so important for girls to see powerful female characters and all that. …

Sunday was Mother's Day, and I had no expectations. My husband and I have been arguing, money has been tight, and the schedule has been packed. I felt that there was no point in getting my hopes up that "it would be …

Today is World Sleep Day, and there’s probably no more hot button issue for parents than sleep—how much they’re getting, how much baby is getting, and how can they get more of it. (As I’m writing this, I can hear my toddler …

Baby Sori is snug and well-rested! Last week (March 2nd-March 9th) was National Sleep Awareness Week (not that we, as parents, need to be any more aware of the sleep that we are or are not getting). In …

"And this teeny slice of the pie is Mommy's free time." It’s been quite some time since I posted. Valerie and I optimistically took on this self-care challenge at the beginning of this year, hoping to lead by …