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Almost every woman, and definitely every mom, often finds herself over-worked, over-exerted, and over-stressed at some point each week.  Whether it’s the stress of a job that you hate or the stress of playing taxi for your children, mom’s often have trouble allowing themselves to let go enough of stress.
In Ruth Klein’s new book The […]

One of the things I had to convince myself when I first went back to working out after having kids is that I didn’t need a expensive new wardrobe.  No, I’m not a shopaholic, but rather was using it as an excuse for why I just wasn’t quite ready to go back to the gym.  […]

It seems that going Green is all the rage now, so when I saw Dr. Alan Greene’s new book about green child-rearing, I thought I would take a look at it.
The book is wealth of information.  It takes you from pregnancy to early childhood, giving parents tips on how to reduce their wastefulness, protect their […]

Isn’t it interesting how we can think that Postpartum Depression is something that happens to other people even while we are surrounded by the signs of depression within ourselves?
I struggled with Postpartum Depression with three of my four births and I’m not yet out of the woods with my fourth. My fourth baby, Laurelyn, is […]

Over the last three years, the number of pictures that include me has significantly decreased. The last series to really include me were the ones where I gave birth.
The arrival of Max marked my departure from pictures. I’ve been lucky if, in a group of 50 pictures, I’m in two. Oh, and in those, I […]

I remember it like it was yesterday–parking in the special “mom-to-be” section, walking through the automatic doors, and encountering a space that seemed the size of a Target which held nothing but baby gear. It was overwhelming. Dizzying that there could be that much stuff to need, that much stuff to buy for […]

Working Mom and I are expecting our second baby girl in November! By New Year’s Eve, I’ll be a stay-at-home dad to two girls under 3.
I’m so screwed.
I feel completely competent as a stay-at-home parent, sometimes. (Some rare and brief times, but some times all the same.) Last Wednesday, for example, I was lifting a […]

I’ve never smoked a cigarette or gotten a tattoo. I don’t even have my ears pierced. My closet sports no designer clothing or shoes. I’ve never even lived close enough to a major city to be in the know about the hottest nightspots or newest underground bands. My pregnancy, like most other things in my […]