The Young Mommy Life

I was trying to think of a snappy title, something more enticing but the simplicity of that statement (“Sometimes marriage is hard”) is something that a lot of people don’t quite understand. They don’t understand why marriage is hard at times, what to do when those hard times come, and how to move past the [...]

The phrase I hear most often from people who know me is “I don’t know how you do it.” The “it” is the looooong list of things on my daily to-do list. Every day, I’m home with two kids, ages 5 and 3, trying my best to take over where their teachers left off. I’m [...]

I think I’ll just leave this here. Discuss among yourselves: Well, before I go, here’s a good comment from a YML reader, from when I posted it on the Facebook page: It sounds to me that the “sleepover” part was really a side note to the main message of her book, that sex is a [...]

I’ve been taking stock of a lot of areas in my life and I realize the one big thing that’s missing…is the romance. Most of our dates consist of eating takeout on the couch and I make sure to wear my sweatpants (or leggings…anything with an elastic waist) to make sure I can throw down [...]

When people ask me, “Tara, how do you do it?” I usually mutter something about how I’m still exhausted and I’m just doing the best I can, but I have to give credit where credit is due. This man is simply amazing. Without complaint, he listens to me vent. This man has lifted me up [...]