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I may not be amazing at a lot of traditional “wife” tasks. I don’t like cooking or baking, I don’t decorate our home for holidays, I detest running household errands, …

Before I had my daughter, I spent several Christmases without a Christmas tree. It’s not that I didn’t have one, but that I just didn’t care to put it up. …

*This post was originally published on Mommy on Purpose. I Had No Idea What to Expect as a New Stay-at-Home Parent When I first decided to become a stay-at-home mom, …

My husband and I are celebrating our eleventh wedding anniversary this month, and thirteen years together. Although eleven years is a drop in the bucket to the marriages of 20, …

When I was 23 years old, my first husband blindsided me with a divorce. I had noticed that he wasn’t as loving toward me. I even saw him pulling away …

Our daughter is a pretty self-sufficient child for two and a half. But she’s always testing, constantly toeing the line. A few months ago, she asked me where her Elmo …

I Didn’t Always Know That Life Is Not a Movie Who doesn’t remember the rom-coms (romantic comedies) of the 90s and early 2000s with fondness? When I was in college, …

What is the Mental Load? I was first introduced to the mental load through a clever comic by French illustrator, Emma.  She argues that in traditional home dynamics, the husband …

Almost all of us have friends with cancer. Did you know that 39.6% of us will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in our lives? With statistics like that, the …

I don’t like being a stay-at-home mom…it’s not what I thought it would be. I don’t like being a stay-at-home mom. There. I said it. So many moms gush about …