The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little. -Jon Kabat-Zinn   One of my 13 year old’s favorite sayings right now, when I’m on my cell phone in our hometown of Flower Mound, Texas is, “Mom, get off of Instagram!” And often, more often than I’d like to admit, I am on Instagram and […]

There is no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. – Jill Churchill   School just started for us here in Flower Mound, Texas, and “yell-y mom” (as my kids like to refer to me this time of year) has returned. It was so nice over the […]

Being a new mother is supposed to be the happiest time of your life, but postpartum depression and anxiety strip that away for a time, but trust that it will not last forever. – Judy Dippel Postpartum Depression has been on my mind a lot this week. First, I just got back from the Postpartum […]

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly—indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection. – Arianna Huffington   I always have such big expectations for Mother’s Day, each and every year. As someone who is very much a people pleaser […]

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. – Albert Camus   I spent the weekend with our newest nephew, a baby boy who is almost four months old, and was unsurprised to find that the memories of when my two kids were little came flooding back. […]