Motherhood + Parenting

My background is in technical writing. I've written for the Oklahoma Gardener magazine, which is no longer in publication. I've written for OSU's Department of Horticulture Newsletter, I write my own seasonal newsletter The Hort Exhort, I've written OSU...

Hispanic Heritage month is September 15 to October 15 every year. It's a time for us to celebrate the famous Hispanic Americans and their achievements. It's also a time to celebrate our families, remember our heritage, and teach others. Half...

The Storm clouds begin to gather Uh oh, I thought, seeing my son's teacher pop up on my caller ID. We are three days into Pre-K, and I thought things were going well. He woke up at 5:45 on Monday morning...

Your teenager may not be as “lazy” as you give them credit for! It may be a matter of really working together to set them up for sleep success.  Somewhere between ages 12-19, your sweet little child flips a switch,...

We were so young, yet we felt like we were ready to conquer the world.  To many of our friends, we got married way before the average marriage age, when we were 23 and 25 - fresh out of...

I love summer. I love being outside, enjoying the sunshine, playing in the water, celebrating 4th of July and my birthday. What I don't love is coming home from a HOT day, then having to stand over a hot stove...

If you are anywhere on the internet, you’ve probably noticed the decluttering craze, (every mom blog has written about it at least once, amirite). Everyone is looking for ways to live a more simplified and intentional life. Which sounds...

Like many people, I set some goals for myself for the new year. I have the typical ones: lose weight, stay off my phone, drink more water. But after seeing an article about an actor, I added a new...

An old acquaintance once posted on her social media something about horseshoes being better than circles. She was referencing another social media post, this one from Glennon Doyle, that reads, "If you are standing with other women in a circle and...

What is Juneteenth? Despite the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the 250,000 enslaved people in the Confederate-controlled state of Texas were not aware of their freedom until two years later on June 19, 1865. That date became known...

Before our adopted daughter came to live with us as a foster child in 2019, we prepared in all the ways we knew how. We did all the training with the Department of Human Services, we read all the...

We’ve all heard that saying right? Usually in context of a funny GIF or meme or something along those lines, and they are hilarious. That phrase, however, took on a different meaning for me in the last couple years....