Super Mom
noun
The highest aspiration of motherhood. She sends her kids to school with a nutritious, homemade lunch that they (probably) eat without complaint. She makes almost everything else from scratch, too, like those cookies you munched on when...
Dear C-Section Scar,
I’ll admit when I found out at 36 weeks pregnant I was going to need you that I left the doctor's office in tears and sat crying in my car. How bad would you hurt? What was...
I remember facing the decision to return to work after having my son. I weighed all the options and, in the end, chose to stay home. The close attachment I was building with my son won. I became a...
Happy Passover and Happy Easter! We're hosting Easter this year for fourteen adults and ten kids, so it's been a busy week getting ready for that on top of the week's usual routine and attending a fun private shopping...
It was a good week for my family as we learned our daughter got assigned to our first choice of public kindergartens in San Francisco! If you're not familiar with the process, it's overwhelming, so we're grateful and relieved to...
I had a big cry today. Crying isn’t exactly a rare occurrence for me, but today was different. I felt despondent and helpless. It felt like all the sorrow that has befallen my friends, family, and community hit me...
Your baby is finally sleeping well, but are you? Many parents struggle with sleeplessness themselves. Often we never had the greatest sleep habits, but we didn’t notice until we became parents. Sleep feels so much more vital to our...
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Hopefully, you've been following along with our Mommy Madness Tournament, a fun take on college basketball's March Madness. If not, we have two words for you: Burke Williams. Every time you vote in...
In my three and a half years of being a mom, I’ve said the Mean Girls quote, “I’m not, like, a regular mom; I’m a cool mom,” more than once. I think most of us want to be that...
Most women I know feel that the split of managing household tasks is. . . unbalanced between their partners and themselves. A recent article in The Washington Post backs up that feeling with these statistics: “Employed women partnered with...