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If you by chance caught my family and I on the Today Show recently, you probably heard me framing up the problem we are all feeling after 2+ months of quarantine. From a 30-minute interview came a 20-second sound bite to frame up what my “engi-nerd” husband, Paul would say is the “problem statement”. What you […]
After having my first child at 23, I had no plans for her to have a sibling right away. The narrative I aspired to for our lives included having another child by Shelby’s fifth birthday, but life had different plans. Those plans included substantial maturing on my part, and many years of my daughter being […]
I never thought a global pandemic would be the vehicle that would bolster my confidence as a mom, but here we are. We are living in a world of bring your own Lysol and engineer your own face masks out of rubber bands and scrap fabric for your next grocery store run. Like everyone else, […]
April is Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month and Houston Moms Blog is dedicated to helping raise awareness about child abuse prevention. This is one mom’s story. Recently, I joined a new group of parents. It wasn’t a voluntary membership; I did everything to avoid it. It’s the loneliest club, one that no parent wants to […]
Every April, the world changes to light things up blue for Autism Awareness Month. This year, as the world battles COVID 19, Autism Awareness Month has taken a bit of a backseat and understandably so. I’m not trying to take anything away from the seriousness of the health crisis that we are living currently; however, […]
Gone for now are the gatherings at the playground and in each other’s home. No more school for big kids or preschool for the littles. In their place are online classrooms and virtual playdates. And both of those have a learning curve. In our household of three kids, we have done Facetime, Zoom conversations, and […]
I recently spent three days far away from the city. Though I was surrounded by thirty other women, this was no “women’s retreat”. We each agreed to walk through the dark places in our life in the hopes of breaking the things that were stopping us from living out our parenting goals. As each […]
Let’s face it: the absence of routines and predictability is the epitome of scary for kids {and if we’re really being honest, all of us}. Since our last Book Club book was all about parenting secure kids, I’ve had these ideas on my mind coming into this time of “hunker down”. In their book The Power […]
Let’s start off by defining feminism and who are feminists. According to Merriam Webster, feminism can be defined as:: 1: the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes 2: organized activity on behalf of women’s rights and interests The. Social. Equality. Of. The. Sexes. Say it louder for the […]
Spring Break is almost here, and unless you are taking off on a fabulous vacation, it’s likely your kids are going to be bored for some of the next week. And that is okay, and even beneficial. Mooooommmmm! I’m sooooo bored!!! Uh-oh. It’s the battle cry of all children everywhere and while you may just […]
