Why I (Almost) Always Stop and Let People Talk To My Baby
We’ve all heard the rants of nervous mothers, upset that a stranger reached out and booped their baby on the nose. As a mom of three, I totally get it! It is important to be…
How Finding a Creative Outlet Brought Me Peace in Motherhood
Tell us a little bit about yourself! I’m a hand lettering and watercolor artist, and a wife to Cory and mom of four boys, Henry (5), Fulton (4), Pio (3) and Freddie (4 months). I’m…
“Our Marriage Comes First” – Mom of Three and U.S. Coast Guard Officer
Tell us a little bit about yourself! Hi! My name is Ali. I am a Marine Engineer by trade and currently I am an officer on active duty in the U.S. Coast Guard as a…
We Opened a Craft Brewery with Two Kids In Tow
Of all places, my husband and I met on Tinder a little over four years ago. We had no mutual friends and our only “matched interest” was probably a pretty common one: The Beatles. However,…
What I’ve Learned as an Army Wife
I share my husband with every citizen of this country. That’s an intense idea that’s hard to wrap my head around sometimes. It’s easy to fall into a trap of selfishness when I haven’t seen…
Navigating Life as a Working, Traveling Mom: “We are Masters of Our Work, Not The Other Way Around”
All moms work, whether it’s paid or unpaid, full-time or part-time, inside the home or at the office. This article is part of a series of interviews we are conducting with moms who are in…
Grow Your Gratitude: 3 Easy Steps for Busy Moms
A couple years ago, a good friend came to visit. She had just read Ann Voskamp’s book One Thousand Gifts and was overflowing with excitement — the book had left her with a new perspective…
Beauty and Function In the Melding of Old and New: Our 1940s Historic Home Tour
When we bought our home four years ago, it was in bad shape. It was over 70 years old, a vacant, leaking, neglected foreclosure, filled with dirt, dog hair, and junk. But it was on…
Marriage is HARD. 8 Tips to Keep the Spark Alive (With Kids in Tow)
I won’t mince words here: marriage can be freaking HARD. Sure, in the beginning it’s easy to keep the spark alive while everything is still new and you don’t have little miniature humans running around….
Why I’m Not Afraid of Down Syndrome
Sometimes our most definitive moments are loud – a birth, a death, an accident, a promotion. But sometimes they happen quietly, in the smallest of spaces between otherwise ordinary moments. I was thinking about this…
Flooring Renovation: Asbestos Removal and Choosing the Perfect Floor Stain
We finally completed the renovation of our first-floor flooring, and like most renovations, it was a bit more involved than we initially hoped for. When we bought the house three years ago, we knew the…
Roses are red: 8 beautiful shades of a paint color you might not realize you love
Lots of us love blues, greens, whites, and greys. And if neutrals are more your thing, you might think you need to stay far away from a color like red. But we think it’s worth…
