I have spent a lot of time thinking about Why Moms Matter. I feel very strongly that they do – so it is important to me to be able to articulate just WHY. On Why Moms Matter on Blog Talk Radio, we have chatted with moms who have slept in hospital beds while their kids battled leukemia or received a… View Post
Speak Now For Kids
Just about 2 months ago, I said out loud, “We’re so lucky, Delaney has never been in the hospital.” Well, you know how that works, right? Say it, forget to knock on wood – well, I might as well have requested a bed in the Emergency Room. After 5 full days of a fever 101-103 and a negative flu swab,… View Post
Cinco de Smith
What? You think with a name like Smith that Cinco de Mayo might not be our thing? On the contrary – Cinco de Mayo is THE holiday for my family – because without Cinco de Mayo – there would be no Smith family of 4. It was on this very date, 8 years ago that the friendship between my husband… View Post
The Mommy Battery is RECHARGED!
I might very well have been the best Mommy in the world today. Not because I treated my small people to an extravagant event – not because they had cake for dinner, skipped nap time or were allowed to have a movie marathon – but simply because I truly enjoyed every minute with them. I adored the snuggling, I raced… View Post
Parenting is….
So, I’ve been asking moms I meet (or already know) to finish this sentence….”Parenting is…..” Here is a beautiful, amazing, surprising sample of the feelings shared with me. Parenting is…..”love…survival… pure joy…the hardest thing I have ever done… satisfying…challenging….one-of-a-ind…hard…trying…rewarding…perplexing…fun …full of drama…a sitcom…a little bit of everything…crazy…being able to roll with the punches…something I am grateful for every day…comical…overwhelming…exhausting, sweet…special…unlike anything… View Post
Twitter brings out the Sun
I don’t claim to know why everyone uses Twitter, but I can certainly suggest (beyond SEO, traffic or promotion of any kind) why you should. For inspiration. To feel connected. For advice. This morning, I awoke to another cloudy, rainy day. Desperate to avoid another Monday (or, as it turns out, my early Tuesday), I jumped on Twitter and said, “Anyone… View Post
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