"Will you love her, comfort her, honor and keep her, in sickness and in health; forsaking all others and keeping yourself only for her for as long as you both shall live?" In sickness and in health. I've been marinating on this for a while now as our household seems to face a "season of [...]

As is shown on social media, holiday movie favorites, Christmas songs and advertisements everywhere, the Christmas season is supposed to be filled with "children laughing, people passing, meeting smile after smile." And when we and our children aren't smiling and laughing, there can be some real "mom guilt" there. We can feel like we've somehow failed when every moment isn't merry and bright.

Want to know the difference between these two photos? It’s not weight loss. It’s a new perspective. And new jeans. After giving birth, I found myself in this euphoric high of amazement at what my body had done. I would beam when looking at this saggy, sore tummy in the mirror. I was filled with [...]

My expectation for tandem breastfeeding twins was met with a different reality.

Because I’ve never been able to mother in a way that is whole and undivided, a certain kind of mom guilt hits immensely at all times of the day. A kind of mom guilt that only other mothers of multiple children will understand. The guilt of having to choose.

After becoming a mom of fraternal twins, I have never been more self assured in the fact that bodies are just made to be different. Plain and simple.

Motherhood. It’s asks for all you’ve got...and then a little more. And we give and we show up with everything we’ve got because we love them with everything we’ve got.

What change a year can bring.

Being a parent of twins can feel like three times the work. However, it’s also insanely rewarding.

Parenting is the easiest thing to have an opinion on, but the hardest thing to do.