A few weeks back on my way home from my girl's trip, I watched Life of the Party on the plane. It was pretty funny, so I made Ryan watch it when I got home because we have a habit of watching the same like 3 shows over and over again - mostly because we … Continue reading Life of the Party: Movie Review-ish
Tag: stay at home mom
mom vacations
I was recently able to go on my weekend long excursion to see my "mom friends" as I like to call them. We were brought together because we were having babies in the same month and eventually branched into a much smaller, more intimate group of people. They're all amazing and so, so necessary for … Continue reading mom vacations
mom mental fatigue
It's real. So so real. It's not necessarily limited to moms but I definitely feel as though I see it complained about more from moms than anyone else. I've tried explaining this to my own husband fairly frequently and I am lucky that he pretty much understands, but every now and then we slip back … Continue reading mom mental fatigue
Don’t pity me for working the late shift
Part of the move to AZ came with having to find childcare again. This is literally the hardest thing. It creates a pit in my stomach like you wouldn't believe every time we've had to do it - and unfortunately that's been very frequently in Elle's short 3 years. But what if we didn't have … Continue reading Don’t pity me for working the late shift
Ryan and I were having an interesting talk on Friday over our holiday dinner and oddly, it came up again last night with some friends we were eating with. Why, when everything seems to be going well, do some people suddenly get anxiety about life and grow concerned about whether or not their luck will … Continue reading
Girl Mom
When I told my sister I was pregnant what feels like 1,000 years ago (because time moves at the rate of a snail on top of a turtle in quicksand when you're pregnant), she immediately said it was a girl. Why? Because she feels like I'm a girl Mom. That's not her saying that I … Continue reading Girl Mom
Ashley Slattery 