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Grocery Shopping From Home :: The Real Deal
I have five children. This makes our weekly grocery run a torturous and exhausting event. Our last excursion to the grocery store involved three trips to the bathroom, a diaper explosion, and the toppling...
Why We Won’t Go Back to the Arcade
I never really cared for arcades - or video games in general. As a former high school teacher, I can recall countless parent-teacher conferences in which students were failing my class because of their...
The Garden of Parenthood
It is both horrifying and humbling to see your less desirable traits in your child, knowing those seeds were both planted and watered by your behaviors. Shaped by Houston traffic {Bless our hearts!} and...
Balancing Business with Motherhood
Before becoming a mom, I worked as the shopping editor for a magazine. The job required me to regularly visit local boutiques - it was the worst job in the world, sigh. *Insert sarcasm.*...
When Tragedies Happen
Last weekend’s Orlando shooting hit close to home for one Houston mother. Although the tragedy happened several states away, Jean Irving knew first-hand the emotions accompanied by such a horrific event.
Just two weeks ago,...
Yoalli’s Story :: A Trip to Mexico, A Rare Diagnosis, & A Mother’s Unconditional...
If you were to run into my family and I at, say, the local playground, you probably wouldn't notice anything different about us. You would probably catch our daughter running around, chasing after her...
Dear Mom, Let Me Raise My Kids
Having children has made me reflect on my own relationship with my mom, and to be quite honest - such introspection has really stirred up some "mommy issues" for me. In coping with my own...
26 Differences in Moms from the ’50s, ’80s, and Today
I obsess over historical novels and films. {Just ask my husband, who has sat through many a PBS documentary with me.} Sometimes I think I was supposed to be a mom in the 1950s,...
Being Motherless…When Your Mom is Still Alive
My mom is alive, yet I am a “motherless mother.” You see, several decades ago, our relationship was fractured due to abuse. Not her abuse. Her boyfriend’s abuse toward me. My mom had no...
My Secrets for a Great Smelling Home
A few weeks ago, I took my first trip by myself . . . with the kids. Me and them. I was somewhat nervous leaving my husband behind to manage the home front, so...