The Young Mommy Life

It’s all I can think about these days. My life is a blur of Go here, do this, make dinner, email a form, return a call, work til 2 a.m., sleep four hours, get ready for class, take the kids to the park, find time to kiss my husband – boom. I feel like a [...]

My daughter starts kindergarten in a little more than three weeks and I’m already feeling those stomach butterflies when you’re on the verge of something huge. She’s still four and won’t be five until the end of November, so I’m a little concerned about her not getting lost in the shuffle and feeling comfortable in [...]

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 [...]

Today is Day 2 of the Student Parent Support Symposium and I am having a blast so far. There are so many innovative programs people are creating for student-parents – I am blown away truly. One of the highlights of Day 1 was getting to meet some student-parents themselves. Tamar Carr, a senior at Ohio [...]

Amber Portwood (from Teen Mom) may or may not have attempted suicide yesterday after an argument with her boyfriend /ex-boyfriend/fiance/ex-fiance Gary Shirley. It concerns me that such a heavy topic (depression/suicide/abusive relationships) get covered with such a light touch, even if we are talking about the lives of reality show participants. It’s almost as if [...]