Real Women, Swimming Upstream
Starting to feel like a troll from the feet up? In mom-life that's known as a Gruffalo. Perhaps you have the feet of an angel but mine are sure showing the signs of being home all day every day. Even worse, my husband's paws are revolting against Shelter In Place. I won't go into details [...]
There's no question those of us with young ones are getting the squeeze right now. I’ve chatted with many friends, neighbors and family members and there is no envy for being locked up with terrorists… I mean toddlers. At least older kids are generally able to self-entertain as long as WiFi exists but not these [...]
Source I like to think that pre-motherhood me would do juuuuussssttttt fine with a little self-quarantine time. I was a book lover, a ponderer, a journaler and held a deep appreciation for a substantial amount of alone time. To an introvert, a little mandated self-isolation is totally palatable.... Present that same scenario to a mom [...]
Source Well, it’s official, the CA Governor has issued a stay-in-place order effective midnight last night. In reality, we’ve already been in self-quarantine for how many days and I already have cabin fever. I started off this journey by launching into potty training my twins, but who is keeping score? A good idea in hindsight [...]
Source These days I'm insanely aware of putting on make up in front of my daughter. Whether it be in my bedroom, at the dining room buffet mirror or in the car before hitting the road. I actually try to do it (when I actually get around to it) outside of her sight and it [...]
Source I haven’t written in a while and it’s not as if I’ve forgotten, leaning on the all-consuming holidays and life’s busyness as an excuse. It’s more that I simply can’t seem to extract a coherent train of thought from end to end with which I can then tie into a pretty bow of a [...]
Source What am I passionate about? My ideal career is in pursuit of my passion, right? There are many times in life when we may stop to think about our professional direction. We may be in college trying to pick a focus of study that will set the trajectory for our career. We may by [...]
Photo credit to our wonderful neighbor, Larry Tonight I found myself standing at our crappy little stove thinking, we’re going to miss this. There’s a really fun upgrade to the oven temperature electronic panel that makes it almost impossible to select the desired bake temperature. For example, if I’m going for a bake temp of [...]
I made passion fruit ice cream today. It was my first time making ice cream- as an adult. I was totally convinced I would need to purchase rock salt because that's how we did it when I was a kid (*old lady statement right there). Instead I bought this freezable mixing bowl assembly that works [...]
“You no longer get vacations, you get trips” This was a piece of soberingly true advice I received once we were promoted to parents. After a rough family vacation to Cabo last year I was more than a little weary to reattempt family travel. Thankfully, now older and wiser, this year’s vacation was the closest [...]
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