Whether it’s the holiday season, her birthday, or Mother’s Day, finding the perfect gifts for stay at home moms can be a challenge. As a long-time stay-at-home mom myself, I’m here to give you some no-fail gift suggestions. Will she love every item on this list? No, definitely not. Individual preferences surely vary. But I…
Being a stay at home mom has been the most challenging role of my life, without a doubt! I’ve gathered these stay at home mom quotes to provide a mix of inspiration and hilarity to your SAHM days. I hope you can relate to these quotes as much as I do. (Of course, if you’re…
My home is a wreck. There, I said it. During normal times as a stay at home mom, keeping my house clean and orderly is quite a challenge, and these are anything but normal times. We’ve been largely stuck at home for so long now. Yes, we’re finally starting to venture out a bit here…
Being a Stay at Home Mom can be a wonderful thing, for sure, but it’s not without its struggles. Sometimes, what a Stay at Home Mom really needs is a good laugh and a dose of solidarity — two things that are best served up in these hilarious stay at home mom memes! Stay at Home Mom…
Dear Husband, I want to take a minute to let you know that I am so grateful for your job. I know that should seem obvious, because that job pays the bills around here (which are basically never-ending), but I think, at times, maybe it actually isn’t so clear. The truth is, sometimes the inconveniences…
Today, I will be unemployed for the first time since… well, since I-don’t-know-when. My only job title will read: Stay At Home Mom. I taught my last class three weeks ago, finalized my grades two weeks ago, and this afternoon, I’ll show up to collect a few signatures and officially be done. I will no…
I had a hard day with my boys a few weeks ago. Truthfully, we had a series of hard weeks. I wrote about it, because, well, that’s what writers do. The article went crazy. It was shared thousands of times across various forms of social media and I received countless messages from other parents who…
I’m in a hard season as a stay-at-home mom. The thing is, there’s no one specific issue that’s making it particularly hard. There’s no looming physical illness, no pressing financial stress, no urgent marital crisis. The “hard” is more the sum of 1,000 little things. More often than not, by dinner time each day, I…
Do you remember the “Real American Heroes” commercial series by Budweiser in the late 1990s? It had an awful-but-catchy jingle and was a ridiculous serenade to the Average Joe for just doing what they do. Well, this is my version of that, but it’s not to Mr. Chinese Food Delivery Guy or Mr. Bowling Shoe…
There’s so much talk these days about filling your tank. Self-care. You can’t pour from an empty cup. Blah blah blah. This isn’t untrue, but my problem isn’t with filling my tank. My problem is that, often, the tank just doesn’t seem large enough. You know how you go to buy a vehicle and they…
