How Busy Moms Can Simplify Meal Planning and Get Dinner on the Table Every Night

You know it ā€“ failing to plan is planning to fail. Planning meals in advance changes my chances of getting a healthy dinner on the table by like 43000%.

THE biggest game changer for me in gettin...

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3 Tips for Working from Home with Kids: How Career Moms Can Manage the Chaos

Working from home has unique challenges even under usual circumstances. Working from home when your kids are all the sudden home with you, no school or daycare, is more like a circus than a work set...

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Pandemic Reflections: How to Reclaim Your Power in Uncertain Times

Why are you giving your power away? Why are so many of us giving our power away?

I know itā€™s a scary time. I know itā€™s a hard time, a harder time than a lot of us can remember ever having. I kno...

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Drop the Mom Guilt: Why Daycare Can Empower Career Moms and Their Kids

Mom Guilt SUCKS! Itā€™s one of the biggest obstacles to achieving authentic happiness as a Career Mom. Feeling all the Mom Guilt feels over daycare? Here are some tips to ditch that drama, so you can ...

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COVID Closet Tears: Balancing Gratitude and Overwhelm as a Career Mom During the Pandemic

I cried on my closet floor this morning. I said goodbye to my husband again for another week of travel, and then I crumpled to my knees in the closet while tears streamed down. Not because I donā€™t k...

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Girl, Get Some Sleep: How We Ended Our Kidsā€™ 5 AM Wake-Up Calls

Are youĀ sleeping at night?Ā šŸ˜“Ā Like, really sleeping, for 7-9 hours? It feels like nothing else matters when you canā€™t get any sleep, and our kids, albeit adorable, are one of the biggestĀ reasons we l...

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And Then There Were...Still 3: Reflections on Loss, Faith, and Finding Strength After Miscarriage

The longer Iā€™m on this plant the more amazed I am at the number of experiences that come into our livesā€”so frequently for us all, it seemsā€”that are utterly and deeply humbling. We experience challenge...

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Christmas Mourning: Embracing Loss, Change, and the Joy of Building New Traditions

Nick and I are playing host for part of Christmas this year, and I am counting down the hours until all the madness unfolds! Lexi and Jordanā€™s family is coming to stay with us on the 23rd, and Jana an...

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Letā€™s Get Down to Busyness: Navigating Career, Family, and the Fear of Doing It Wrong

These daysā€¦so. Much. BUSYNESS.

And is it enough? Is it ever enough? Can there be enough, or at least the feeling of enough?

Or too muchā€¦is it sometimes too much? Because sometimes it feels like way....

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Tales of Pregnancy: Preparing for Motherhood Without Losing Myself

40 and a half weeks pregnant, just tapping my foot! Ironically, I have felt better in the last week and a half than I have in a very long time. I went through intense spells of not being able to walk ...

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Tales of Pregnancy: The Fourth Quarter and Preparing for Parenthood

I know, I know, trimesters. But I canā€™t help but see the parallels between the last month of pregnancy and the fourth quarter of a game. At this point youā€™re probably injured or in some kind of pain. ...

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Tales of Pregnancy: Lessons

Youā€™d be hard pressed to find someone more laid back about labor and delivery than I. Iā€™ve been asked many times about my birth plan, and my response is always the same: Oh, I think Iā€™ll have a baby. ...

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