Mom's Timeout

It’s not like we need a list to tell us we’re moms. I’m well aware after listening to my toddler repeat “Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!” all morning long just because he likes the sound of it. Being a mom has become such a part of my identity that I can’t really remember what my life was […]

What kind of parent are you? Can you neatly bracket yourself into any one particular category? Do you have a so-called type? I think most of us are just doing what we do. We’re probably much less concerned about what we should call ourselves and more so worried about whether or not it’s bedtime yet, […]

I’m seriously in love with Pinterest. My favorite thing about the site is all the life hacks. I am all about life hacks. I get so many great ideas that have totally changed my life from these sorts of lists. For instance: I’m all about the rubber band life hacks. Who knew rubber bands could […]

Netflix might be one of the best modern inventions! If it weren’t for our love of sports, my husband and I would break up with Direct TV for good. In fact, when he got laid off for six months last year, we cut out the satellite and barely missed it (thankfully, it wasn’t football season). […]

What is a MBFF? She’s your mom best friend forever.  I’m lucky enough to have a few of these awesome women in my life. I don’t know what I’d do without them. If you’re like me, your best friend is someone you’ve known for years. She was around long before you earned a mom title. She’ll […]

There are always people telling you what you can’t do when you’re pregnant.  It’s enough to make you crazy. One of my husband’s relatives spent a good 1/2 hour explaining to me all the reasons I couldn’t eat Oreo cookies while pregnant. All he succeeded in was making me binge eat a box of birthday […]

I’ve definitely heard my fair share of things that I’d rather not have since I became a mom, especially things that relate to my decision – if you want to call it that – to go back to work. I mean, it’s not as if I go out of my way to make sure that […]

Is parenthood stressing you out? No worries. It has that effect on all of us. After a while, our days become a blur. We spend so much of our time trying to do it all – trying to be everything to everyone and, sometimes, it’s easy to forget what’s actually important. We don’t have to […]

Quick. What’s the most important item that you need to get through the day as a mom? These days, we’re still lugging around both a purse and a diaper bag and we rarely leave home without both packed and ready. Keeping so many things close at hand is a necessary evil right now. Diapers, wipes, […]

I always tell moms who are planning to breastfeed that they shouldn’t spend too much on the crib, because they might never use it. We didn’t. It was beautiful and expensive and totally wasted. Why didn’t we use our crib? Breastfeeding an infant with a husband working third shift and me working first shift had […]

Toddlers. They’re something else, aren’t they? Can’t live with them. Can’t live without them. I’ll definitely say one thing – this is a unique and interesting age. Having a toddler is both funny and frustrating. It’s also full of ups and downs – and sometimes temper tantrums too. It’s crazy to think that you go […]

From the moment we decided to have kids, I knew I wanted a girl. I daydreamed with my best friend throughout the first half of my pregnancy about all the cute little outfits and things we would do if we had two little girls.  Then reality came crashing through when the ultrasound revealed that we […]

Are you a veteran mom? Have you been in the trenches? If you instinctively know all the secret mommy life-hacks that will make your life easier, I’m talking to you.  If you’re that mom, you don’t need this article. You’ll be shaking your head and smiling about how you “already figured that one out.” For […]

Do you think you’re a good mom? Most of the time I think I’m a good mom. Some days I feel like I’m totally rocking at this mom gig. Now that I have two kids, I sort of think of myself as a veteran at the mom job. Sometimes I even think I can do […]

Have you stumbled across any of the recent YouTube videos of parents punishing their kids for all the world to see? What’s with this sudden trend of embarrassing kids on the internet? Do these parents not realize that once this stuff is out there, it’s permanent – that there’s really no way to ever erase […]

Congratulations! You’re a mom. Now begins the inner monologue of things your mom did that you are NEVER going to do. Don’t say it out loud, because that will make it come true. Really, all us veteran moms are laughing at you because we know something you don’t. Every thing, EVERY thing, that you say […]

Remember those little quizzes in the teen magazines? My girlfriends and I had a rule that you had to take your quiz on paper (so everyone could take the quiz without seeing your answers) and you had to share your results with the group. It was a favorite sleepover/hanging out activity. These days we still […]

I know, at least to some degree, I was guilty of this before I had my son. I guess I just didn’t get it. I couldn’t quite wrap my head around how much of a balancing act it really was to work and raise a family. Who would’ve thought? To this day, I’ll never forget […]

I got entirely too much advice when I was pregnant – far more than I actually wanted or needed. There were quite a few things that no one warned me about, though. Those were the things that I really wanted to know. I wanted to know how much I would love this little baby and […]

Here’s the thing about housework – it multiplies while your sleeping. Regardless of how good your intentions are, you can’t keep up with it. Keeping things cleaned up becomes difficult after the first baby and practically impossible after the second one. You try, though. Every day, you do the dishes, throw a load of laundry […]