Tag: mom life

  • 10 Years of Parenthood: An Open Letter to Our Sweet Girl on Your 10th Birthday

    Ten years. That’s how long daddy and I have been parents. You, our sweet baby girl, Addison Grace, were born on this day in 2008. You came into the world a week before your due date, and only about six hours after you decided to make it obvious you were arriving. My contractions started late…

  • Summer Bucket List: Per My Kids

    Summer Bucket List: Per My Kids

    Summer is here. Oh, who am I kidding…we are Floridians. It’s always summer. But it’s really summer now that the humidity is back in full force and the kids are out of school for another 10 weeks (yes, I’m counting). I don’t love summer. I don’t love saying that, but it’s true. I’m not a…

  • 6 Surprising Things I Love About Being A Mom: The Mother’s Day Edition

    6 Surprising Things I Love About Being A Mom: The Mother’s Day Edition

    Happy Mother’s Day, Mamas! If you’d told me 9 years ago when I was celebrating my first Mother’s Day as an expectant mommy-to-be that Mother’s Day would become a day that’s so bittersweet, I never would have believed it. I was high on life, on the baby we were expecting, and on everything else. Life…