For an entire week, my weather app promised destruction. Not just snow— Snowmageddon . We’re talking 17–21 inches  of the fluffy white stuff, topped with nearly an inch of ice for good measure. A real end-times forecast. Now, as someone with New Jersey roots, this sounded less like a crisis and more like a cozy winter wonderland. But I live in Virginia  now, and Virginia hears “snow” and responds by politely shutting down civilization for an undetermined amount of time. So na

Life is full. And by full , I mean bursting at the seams, overflowing, one minor inconvenience away from complete chaos. Four kids. After-school sports. Dance classes. Weekly physical therapy appointments for my five-year-old. A full-time job. A husband whose work hours laugh in the face of anything resembling a schedule. A house that somehow always needs one more thing  done. So naturally, I looked at my life and thought: You know what we have plenty of time for? An eight-we

I’ve been thinking a lot about something lately. Probably because I’m exhausted, overstimulated, and standing in my kitchen wondering how it’s already Friday when I swear it was just Monday five minutes ago. Last week, I wrote about turning forty and realizing I didn’t exactly land where I thought I would. Overweight. Overtired. Overstimulated. Slightly irritated by people who wake up early on purpose . I said I was trying to “get myself back,” and I meant it. But here’s the

When I was married and dreaming about having kids, I had visions . Beautiful ones. Soft ones. Pinterest-worthy ones. I imagined myself as that mom . The nurturing, patient, intentional kind. I would make memories on purpose. I would teach my kids how to be kind, smart, funny, and independent. I would guide them through life with wisdom and grace. Our home would run like a well-balanced system where everyone helped out, chores were done without resistance, and daily routines-b

You would think that after doing the exact same morning routine  for approximately twelve consecutive years, I would have it mastered. A well-oiled machine. A graceful conductor of breakfast foods and backpacks. A woman who calmly sips hot coffee while her children independently prepare for the day, or as independently as their age allows. You would be wrong. Every single morning feels like a surprise attack. I wake up genuinely shocked that we are once again expected to wake

My twin sister and I turned forty recently. Forty. As in, the age that used to sound ancient  when I was twenty-two and eating pepperoni pizza at midnight without consequences. The age where, according to the internet, I should either be “aging backwards” or “entering my most powerful era yet.” I am neither. It’s the beginning of 2026, and here I am—overweight, overtired, overstimulated, and honestly a little over the audacity of everyone else online making life look like a m

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