Wife On The Go

A number of years ago, I turned the Big 4-0.  Why do we refer it as that?  It should be called “4-0 almost dead not the new 20 this sucks big ones”.   My friends can tell you – when I was in my 30’s, I was active, my metabolism kicked ass, I was hardly ever […]

Do you ever feel as if you’re trying to do too much and that you’re stretched too thin? Do you ever feel as though everything would be perfect if you could just add a few more hours to your days? Does walking on a tight rope seem somehow easier than juggling all of the balls […]

I’m allergic to bananas. It’s not a big deal most of the time. Since we live in the South, where banana pudding is a food group, I often hear “You poor thing! You can’t eat banana pudding? That’s awful!” The truth is, I don’t know what it tastes like. I can smell the sweetness of […]

Pregnant at 32, unmarried and having only dated the soon-to-be father of my soon-to-be-born child for a month (we were friends for over a year), I was about as clueless as you can possibly be about having a baby.  Yes, I had been around babies and liked them, from a distance.  My friends were younger […]

I sometimes wonder if working moms want to stay at home and if stay-at-home moms would prefer to work. I sometimes wonder if we, as women and mothers, have a serious case of “the grass is always greener” syndrome. I can’t even tell you how many women I’ve talked to that have told me something […]

  It is so important to take a few 10 minute breaks each day. Your mind and body need to know the difference between being on call 24/7 for your children and at the same time take time for you. When you consciously choose to take care of your needs, then the 10 minute time […]

If you are a mom, then you are always spreading yourself beyond the limit. You are sleeping with one eye open and both ears listening. You are on call 24/7 for those precious children you are caring for with all your heart, body, mind and soul, all of YOU. When you spread yourself so thin, […]

It was once so easy.  You spy a girl playing by herself on the playground, march up to her and inform her she is now your friend.  In school, you were constantly surrounded by children your own age, and it was easy to single one out from the herd.  You went through the battle zone […]

  I’m a big fan of planning.  I love making a plan for everything, even my weekends. I also love writing things down. Before my son was born, I wrote out three different possible schedules for him on my maternity leave. I recently found one in my night stand and laughed so hard I cried. […]

It’s the end of another very long day.  You’re exhausted from being up all night (and all day) with a screaming baby, or you leave work only to start your “other job”.  You’ve spent all week caring for a sick child, or your boss has been riding your ass all week to get a project […]

  Do you remember when you were a kid and you felt like you could go and go and go for a million miles or at least a million years? Gosh, and in your early 20s, life was a party and the party didn’t get started until about 10 o’clock at night! Well, you’re a […]

I spent two years after my son was born being unhappy with my body. Before I got pregnant with my son, my first baby, I was skinny and tan. I loved shopping because everything fit me and the store always had my size. Nothing hugged my curves the wrong way. I had the coveted hour […]

It hasn’t even been a year yet and I’ve already caught myself doing it on more than one occasion. It’s definitely not intentional. It just sort of happens. I’ll be thinking a completely random thought and then I catch myself saying something along the lines of “I can’t wait until he can crawl” or “I […]

As I slowly pack away the baby stuff, the realization hits me like a ton of bricks – my baby isn’t a baby these days. All of the boxes of newborn and baby clothes have made their way to my parents’ house – just in case. The rock ‘n play and the bouncer ended up […]

Sometimes, I question what I want to remember – I wonder if I’m doing it all wrong. Are 500 or so pictures of my baby’s first Christmas too many? What about the literally thousands of pictures of our day-to-day? How many pictures can you actually take of one baby sleeping or eating or playing?  Have […]