My husband and I aren’t exactly strangers when it comes to relationship challenges 💞. We have been together for 14 years and married for eight, so we’ve definitely gone through some growing pains as we navigated a long-distance relationship in college and our first year living together as a married 👫 couple.

But nothing has challenged our relationship quite like our first year as 👪 parents .

Before you have your first child, you have these grand ideas of what it will be like. There’s more slee...

“You look too young to be a mom!”

Or how about …

“You have a BABY? No! You look like a baby yourself!”👶

Oh wait, here’s a good one …

“Are you the nanny, ooor … ?”

“No, yeah I’m his mom,” I’d reply. “Yes, I am young,” I’d agree.

Considering I got pregnant straight out of college, I was certainly on the younger end of the parenting spectrum. (No one was more surprised than me, I assure you.) And yet, I wasn’t exactly a teen mom. I wasn’t juggling school courses and motherhood, like so many s...

Moms,

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This is very personal but extremely important. Especially with all this car seat stuff going on.

Last Saturday, yes 3 days before Christmas there was a terrible car accident. A woman crossed into oncoming traffic on a highway and hit another car head on then slammed into the guard wall. Why is this important? Why does it matter? Who was this woman? This woman was the mother of my two nephews. This woman had the most precious cargo in her back seat. She had my nephews who are 6 a...

3RD UPDATE: What would you do?

Ok, so we have these new neighbors they have been there renting the house 2 doors down for about 3 months or so. They have a 2 year old boy, he just turned two. They have asked me to babysit him on multiple occasions, just so happens I've been busy each time. In my mind, they don't know me or anything about me. Barely know my name and they want me to watch their kid because they see I have kids and stay home. Apparently they haven't had any luck with the babysitt...