Inspiration can come at any time and from anywhere. It can also feel like it’s lost in the uncertainty of the times were experiencing now. We can easily get bogged down with online school, remote work and the thousand things dragging on us each day. I have felt that lack of inspiration many times over…
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Soup to Sooth Your Soul and Your Gut
Comfort food can come in many forms. Until Fall of last year, I’d dive into fried foods, mac-n-cheese and wine without a blink of the eye. I’m on the go being a working mom so convenience food helped me along the way. It was all tasty and good to me. I ate my kids’ food…
Dream It. Plan It. Do It.
Have you ever been around someone who constantly talks about how busy they are? There’s so much work to be done yet not much ever gets accomplished. The conversations revolve around all the things on the list instead of actually working on it. This thought process becomes a repetitive cycle of the perceived busyness versus…
Finding Your Passion as a Working Mom
Being a working mom is hard. Sometimes it feels like a constant state of multi-tasking schedules and shifting priorities. Your time is spent from the moment you wake up until you crash in the evening. It can be really easy to let go of things you loved to do before you became a mom. We…
5 Ways to Live Your Dreams without the Fluff
Are you a dreamer, but already grown up? I remember being a kid and dreaming about becoming a championship horseback rider. I also wanted to ride skateboards for a living. I could do a mean 180 back in the day. I was a fearless dreamer. I also became one of those young adults who didn’t…
Why Gratitude Counts
“Attitude with gratitude.” It’s not a new phrase, but it’s one that sometimes gets left behind when we feel overwhelmed. At times I lose the gratitude and have a bad attitude, the kind that is not productive or positive.
5 Ways to Thrive as a Breadwinning Mom
Did you know that moms are the sole or primary breadwinner in four out of 10 households with children? According to the Pew Research Center, women make up almost half (47%) of the U.S. labor force today, and the employment rate of married mothers with children has increased from 37% in 1968 to 65% in 2011. The role…
When Blog Moms Meet
I am always excited about the new people I connect with online. It’s not often I meet them in person though. I’ve had the opportunity to met people at conferences, women who I admire and business owners. It’s fun to see people face to face after getting to know them online.
Setting Boundaries You’ll Keep
I’ve been reading a lot about moms feeling overworked and struggling between career and motherhood and have listened to moms talk about it over the past few weeks. It’s so easy for us to strike up a conversation about work, motherhood and everything else in between. It feels good to know we are not alone with our struggles…
Who Says It’s A Mid-life Crisis?
Close your eyes and imagine your 21 year-old self. Come on, humor me and take a minute to think back to that time. What were you doing? What did you want then? How did it feel? Scary, exciting or cool? Maybe you were graduating college or working a full-time job. You may have already had a…
