Maybe I'll Shower Today

Category: Inspire

  • Playing with dolls and raising a caring son

    Thanks to its Super Bowl ad (below), you likely are aware of Goldieblox, the toy company that encourages girls to pursue scientific and mathematical based careers.

  • The out-of-your-mind ones

    A friend once joked to my husband that his daughter was going through the “terrible twos,” despite being just a little older than one year. At the time, we both laughed and chalked it up to new fatherhood. Surely, those ear-piercing, drive-you-insane tantrums will not appear until a child is…

  • Overcoming mommy shyness

    You spot her across the park. You glance at her with a sort of half smile and quickly turn away, lest she think you are some creepy weirdo. You contemplate your next move, wondering if it would be too forward to introduce yourself.

  • Wean in

    Other than vaccinations, I fail to think of a more hot-button parenting issue than how a mother chooses to nourish her child. Throughout my pregnancy and through labor and delivery and beyond, I heard that familiar mantra, “breast is best.”

  • Drinks to diapers (a poem)

    Remember when being up at four meant shaking your thing on the dance floor? And the only bottles in your sight were filled with vodka, gin and Bud Light? You knew all the words to every hit song. Now it’s mostly kiddie sing-a-longs. Dining out came with no fear of…

  • Back to bedsharing

    For the first 3 months (give or take), my baby would only sleep in bed with me. Correction: He would only sleep on top of me in bed. This made my own sleeping situation a bit challenging, but as any new mother will tell you, you do what you can…