The Young Mommy Life

I’m writing this on a Thursday night, and I swear it feels like Friday. Or maybe I just wish it was. My body aches, and my brain has turned to mush. This week actually kicked off this weekend, when I had to rush my daughter to the ER on Saturday for an asthma attack that [...]

Dear Thomas,  Okay, Mommy has to start this birthday letter off with a confession, unfortunately. All last week you were bugging me about taking you and your sister to Borders. “I want to go to the bookstore! I want to go to the bookstore!” It was like you had a 50% off coupon burning a hole [...]

I’m coming up on the eight-month mark of self-employment and have had some time to reflect on how far I’ve come since last December, when I was shaking in my boots with nothing but two months’ pay, hope and prayer. A lot of people ask me what I do in my “real life” aka what [...]

When my daughter was about five or six months old, I marveled at how fast she was growing up, and how often I was busy with work and school and other stuff that always seemed to creep up. I wanted to put her first in my life, but I also had bills to pay. I [...]

I am so grateful to Ms. Nicole Blades at Ms.MaryMack.com for allowing me to grace her blog with my presence. I wrote a guest post for her about my daily intention to be grateful for all the little blessings in my life. And now I’m happy to share it with you. Enjoy! Last November I [...]