Joys of Motherhood

  • How to Write and Record Your Birth Story

    How to Write and Record Your Birth Story

    Interested in preserving and sharing your own birthing story? Well, if you like to write, you can simply take pen to paper or sit at your computer. However, if you're daunted by the idea of putting words on paper...

  • Motherhood: It Will Change Your Life

    Motherhood: It Will Change Your Life

    Time is running out for my friend. We are sitting at lunch when she casually mentions that she and her husband are thinking of "starting a family. What she means is that her biological clock has begun its...

  • Stay at Home Moms vs. Working Moms

    Stay at Home Moms vs. Working Moms

    Why does everyone feel this constant need to compare "Stay at Home Moms" with the so-called "Working Mom?" First, I take offence to the term, ‘working mom.' All Moms work and the work...

  • The Incredible Shrinking Woman

    The Incredible Shrinking Woman

    I had my first encounter with the scale a little over 36 years ago. I weighed in at a positively svelte 5 lbs. 13 oz.-the one and only time in my life that I would ever be classified as underweight! Over...

  • Price of Motherhood

    Price of Motherhood

    The good mother, the wise mother . . . is more important to the community than even the ablest man; her career is more worthy of honor and is more useful to the community than the career of any man, no...

  • Pamper Yourself

    Pamper Yourself

    You sigh as you prop your feet up on the coffee table. The kids have had a great time at the park and you even managed to chat with some other moms while you were there. A quick stop at the grocery store to...

  • Hey Mom, what did YOU do today

    Hey Mom, what did YOU do today

    My husband came home today and saw me sitting on the couch, toddler on one knee, and baby nursing on the opposite breast. I was trying to turn the pages of a book with the hand not attached to the infant, while...

  • Super Mom

    Super Mom

    Diana Prince, Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Peter Parker… What do all these names have in common? They are the alter egos for Wonder Woman, Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man. Super heroes are not super all...

  • 352 Tips for Mothers

    352 Tips for Mothers

    Cut off the crusts. Make real cocoa. Hang their drawings on the fridge. Say the clay ashtray is what you always wanted. Sing silly songs. Make goofy faces. Let them take off the training wheels. Remind the Tooth...

  • Motherhood and Sexual Desire

    Motherhood and Sexual Desire

    As dedicated and caring mothers our questions of concern most often revolve around our kids. Moms ask me, "When should I tell my child about reproduction?" "What should I say?" "What if...

  • Motherhood with an Autistic Child

    Motherhood with an Autistic Child

    Relax. He is the same little boy you loved yesterday. I smiled trying to hold back the tears. "No he isn't. Yesterday I dreamed he would be an astronaut. Today I am hoping he will learn to talk. He is...

  • Thoughts from a Single Mother

    Thoughts from a Single Mother

    It was her first birthday. She was laying on the changing table, her eyes were sparkling, her smile so beautiful, her angelic face beaming, her hands reaching up at my hair and her perfect mouth and dimpled...

  • Celebrating Mom

    Celebrating Mom

    Mom Articles 10 Memorable Ways to Celebrate Mom this Mother's Day A mother's love is one of the most powerful forces in this world. Here are 10 memorable ways to celebrate her love this Mother's...

  • Summertime Challenges for Work At Home Moms

    Summertime Challenges for Work At Home Moms

    Summertime presents a challenge each year for home-based working moms around the country. Continuing to run one's business while keeping the...

  • What New Moms Really Want In Bed...

    What New Moms Really Want In Bed...

    SLEEP!!! Yes…it's true…after conducting my own little informal survey over coffee, tea and crumpets* and browsing through the glossy pages of "Cosmopolitan", "Ladies' Home...




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