Dirty Toes and Mommy Prose
Midnight musings of a first time mom.
Tag: children
Lessons from My Toddler: Moving On
Let me paint the picture for you. I’m running about 15 minutes late to put my daughter down for her nap. A meeting I was holding remotely ran over by about 10 to 15 minutes. My father was watching her during this time and…
Falling Through Seasons of Life
I took a walk at Mill Creek Park the other day while I had a brief minute before I needed to be at a client’s home nearby. As I was walking down the trail, I stopped to pick up a big yellow leaf. My…
Motherhood: Learning to Let Go
Raise your hand if you are a total Type A. Come join me friends! Let’s dive into our crazy together. One piece of advice I was given before having my daughter that I knew would be true, but still decided to fight anyway: Let…
Flying with a Toddler: Five Tips for Mom
Yesterday I posted about tips to help make travel easier for your babe. But, what about Mom!? Here are five things that I’ve learned from trial and error the few times I’ve flown with my daughter alone. Yoga pants are a curse. Listen. Chances…
Five Tips for Flying with a Toddler
Tomorrow Adaline and I are headed to Texas to visit my husband. We will be taking about a 3 hour direct flight. Oh boy. Let me tell you my anxiety is already as high as the plane about it. This will be the second…
Slowing Down Childhood
Nothing makes the days stretch on and months fly by more so than being a mother. Some days seem endless. Yet somehow, you shut your eyes one night and the next day you wake up and another season has passed. Before I was a…
I will never…and now I do: Mother Edition
Prior to having kids, you look at other parents and you may scoff. You roll your eyes at the disarrayed hair and makeup, the sweat pants. You say to yourself, “I will NEVER be one of THOSE parents”. I like so many women before…
