The Young Mommy Life

I can’t go to the grocery store without passing at least four magazines with some postpartum celebrity mom either a) cradling her newborn and calling motherhood “the greatest thing that has ever happened” to them or b) showing off her new post-baby body in a bikini saying how easy it was to lose the weight. [...]

I gave my two cents about MTV’s “16 & Pregnant” back in April, but I haven’t written about Teen Mom in a while. But now it seems unavoidable, because everytime I go to the grocery store I see this: And this: And this: All I want to know is: When did these moms become celebrities? [...]

As some of you know, I am busy these days trying to lose the last 10 pounds of baby weight. Every last one of these suckers is stubborn and refuses to budge. But I’m trying to work through it. I use a variety of workouts, but mostly Jillian Michaels’ 30 Day Shred. She’s super motivating [...]

This Sunday I was trying to figure out what I was going to do while my kids took their afternoon nap. Do I take a nap or do I use this time to get a quick workout in? So I went to bed. (I told you, I’m lazy.) As I lay in bed, I turned the [...]

I don’t pretend to know everything that’s going on with Jon and Kate Gosselin. But I have some ideas and while they might not like their marriage troubles being broadcast in the public, that’s the price you pay when you sign up for a reality show and pose on the covers of Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ [...]