Wife On The Go

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 […]

This morning I heard my baby’s heart beat for the first time. This morning my sweet friend held her baby as his heart stopped beating.  My husband and I joined with them and many others over these last several months to pray for this sweet baby boy. This morning, we prayed and we cried. Later, […]

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 […]

Type in “Common Core” into any search engine and you will get hundreds upon hundreds of pages of information explaining the process or hate mail directed at Common Core.  And it is not just parents who are up-in-arms against these tests, it’s also the teachers.  Teachers are the ones who bear the brunt of parents’ […]

The shame began as sorrow last August, when Michael Brown was gunned down in the streets of Ferguson, MO, by a white police officer.  It grew a little more when, in my own backyard, John Crawford was shot and killed in a Walmart.  It intensified when the video of Eric Garner was released, showing him […]

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’s hard to believe that we’re almost through the first quarter of this year. Did you make New Year’s resolutions? How are things going for you? This is usually about the time of the year that people tend to hit the make it or break it point with things like that. Where do you […]

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 […]

Easter Ideas and Traditions: Easter has always had a special place in my heart. My grandfather, a Baptist minister, would usually dress up as a bible character and perform an Easter monologue for the congregation. Watching him paste a big “bible beard” onto his face was better than searching for baskets from the Easter Bunny!  […]

  Organizing – it’s one of my favorite things to do. Okay, not really, but I do try to be as organized as possible especially with as busy as our schedules are these days. Obviously, as with everything else in life, sometimes I’m more successful than others. Remodeling may have something to do with that. […]

  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. […]

  Do you have rules about technology for your kids? Do you limit the amount of time they spend with technology or the devices they have access to? It’s a question that is always at the forefront of our minds. My husband and I are big smart phone users. We use them for all sorts […]

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 […]