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Pregnancy sucks sometimes! Hard pregnancy truths
Let me start with this…. I’m 24 weeks pregnant with my second child. It took some serious persuading my husband on my part, since he was perfectly content with just our one little princess, so I’ve...
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Stuff I Resolve to Let Go
December is always a particularly meaningful and contemplative time for me. There’s Christmas — about which, I confess, I’m absolutely obsessed, am always immersed in by November 1, and find its...
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Painted memories: This year, give a gift that will last forever
Down a long dirt road, in the middle of nowhere, sat a single-wide mobile home. The walls were paper-thin, and the windows howled as the wind penetrated every nook and cranny. Heated by a wood stove,...
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Holiday Cards, A Variation
Every year I wait with anticipation for the first one to arrive. December is the best mail month! I adore the thought and love each card contains. I love that the sender thinks enough of my little...
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The Elephant in the Room…Santa Claus
I’m sorry, but what the hell is up with parents that choose not to trick their kids into believing Santa Claus exists?!? A lot of my mom friends are not perpetuating the Santa Claus myth and I’m...
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Survival Guide to Winter Break
Ahhh! The Holidays. With 3 weeks Winter Break for us here in Washoe County. Yes, it can be a bit too long for some of us. Either we are working and our kids spend 2/3 of the Break in Camp or Kids’...
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Keep Calm and Puppy On (With a Toddler)
“You know how no one told you how hard it is to have a baby?” I heard my best friend’s voice say in a comfortably familiar tone through my cell phone, “Well this is me saying, if you get a puppy with a...
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Avoid the Mom Crutch: Give Kids the Tools They Need to Succeed
My teenage son and I stand in the seemingly endless line at the DMV. I loathe this place. The lines, the inefficient way it’s run — by no fault of the actual employees — and the long, long, long wait...
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How to Do a Playdate
Mammas and Munchkins is a playdate group that meets every Tuesday at 10 a.m. We moms take turns hosting these playdates at our homes. I joined and have been to four and am hosting for the second time...
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How to Join (or Start) a Book Club for Moms
Book Clubs are for moms and nerds and nerd-moms and — well, anyone really! However, I do suppose one might need a mild interest in reading to make the effort of trying to juggle reading a book while...
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Dear Anyone Who Is NOT My Child: Please Don’t Call Me ‘Mom’
My 4-year-old daughter was recently in the hospital. And I don’t mean “in the hospital” as in “visiting a friend and then scampering down to the cafeteria for a chocolate fro-yo.” I mean “in the...
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The Retreat
It started, innocuously enough, with a Facebook post in 2014. As an avid Facebook follower of my favorite fiction writer, Elizabeth Berg, I knew that though she usually was based in Chicago, she was...
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Love Your Bugs
Until very recently, modern medicine’s war on microbes has been in full swing. Louis Pasteur proposed the Germ Theory of Disease in 1860. Armed with the knowledge that germs caused all disease, the...
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Reflections: Interviews with 4 Moms of Adult Children
I had the privilege of asking 10 reflective questions to moms who are “done” raising their children. (Translation: We know motherhood is never “done” or over with — but this means these moms don’t...
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Stop Shoulding on Yourself!
Does this resonate with you: Do you use the word “should” frequently? Examples might include: I should go and play Legos with the kids instead of washing the dishes. I should get up earlier and work...
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On the Other Side of Naptime
On the other side… Ladies, I made it. I survived. Not only did I survive, but I didn’t even realize that I had actually made it until I was a few months past “making it.” What is “it”, you might be...
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Safe Mouthwashes for Kids
I am asked regularly by my patient’s parents about the many mouthwashes on the market today and if children should be using them. There are many different types of mouthwashes with different benefits,...
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F***ing Car Naps
Fucking car naps. I’ll tell you what: When my baby is melting down and just won’t nap at home, or she woke up as I was crawling out of the bed before I wet the bed myself after holding it for the past...
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Is Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Section (VBAC) an Option?
Cesarean section (C-section) rates are high — per the CDC, in 2015, 32 percent of all deliveries (first child or beyond) were C-section. For the state of Nevada, in 2012, 23.5 percent of all first...
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A Birth Story: Getting Out of My Own Way
“I’m here for you.” I’m here for you too. The conversation was motivating and supportive. It also contained a strong recommendation not to watch the most recent episode of Grey’s Anatomy. She said...
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