• 5 Things Successful Mom Bloggers Do Every Day

    5 Things Successful Mom Bloggers Do Every Day

    Successful mom bloggers align their daily tasks to their goals. It’s important to have things laid out throughout the day — and it helps to do so when you have a supportive husband as well. Learn how you can become a successful mom blogger with these tips.

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  • What Time Has Taught Me About Kindness

    Time has been one of my greatest mentors. Why you ask? Because it’s taught me the value in being kind to others, including myself.  At the age of 10 I “volunteered” at a nursing home. Well, I was forced to help out during that summer because my mom didn’t want me home with my youngest brother. Somehow he got away with staying home and I was stuck going to the nursing home every weekday.  I hated being forced to go. But that wasn’t the first time my mom did that to me. See: dance school for 15 years, and all-girl Catholic

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  • Changes Aren’t Always Welcomed

    Dealing with change can be Going through several changes all at once can drive you mad.  And sometimes the madness can lead you to question things in your life, like the love you have for yourself.  Or worse, the love of those around you.   Overcoming Negative Thoughts I’ve written a few posts on the changes I felt when we first moved to South Florida, and all the changes we went through as a family. But I never mentioned something I held dear to me until recently.  After becoming a SAHM, I felt as though I relied heavily on Jeff. I never saw

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  • Motherhood Changes You

    I have always cared for others more than I have cared about myself, but motherhood really brought out a different side of me. There have been several changes in my life since the day I found out I was going to be a mom. I have been preparing myself mentally, physically and emotionally since day one, but regardless of how many times I have told myself “I got this,” I have flipped my lid. Sometimes when you do too much for someone, they slowly start taking advantage of it. And that is when you have to put your foot down

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  • There's No Right Time To Call It Quits

    Time has a funny way of showing you a different side to people, places, and things.  Do you remember watching your favorite movie for the first time? Did you miss out on anything from the first and second time you saw it? Well, life is a lot like that. Life is a lot like a baseball game. There is someone on the pitcher’s mound waiting to throw a curve ball right at you hoping you swing and miss. Miss it three times and you are out, but that is not always the case. Sometimes you find yourself swinging so many

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