After four months with two children under two years old, I have come to the unassailable conclusion that the inventor of cocktail hour must...
Dulled by repetition, we hear the news with only semi-surprised horror.
We see the all-too-regular imagery of children hiding under their desks and running from...
My son, my oldest, starts kindergarten in a little less than a month. It’s happening.
His elementary school puts on a musical in the spring....
Her loud, clear voice cut through the din of children’s babble and parent conversation around us.
I stood near the edge of the large rectangular...
You know what they say about best-laid plans? Well, things did not go as planned this week. I had time set aside after packing...
When I became a new mom in 2008, I had only lived in my new house in a new town for about four months....
To my daughter the night before kindergarten-
Tomorrow, you are going to be great.
I’m not saying this as an encouraging “I think you can.”...
At the end of the fall, one of the high schools called me. They had lost one of their AP physics teachers with less...
There is something about the start of a New Year that always feels like a clean slate.
The calendar moves forward, and we feel like...
Last Sunday was undeniably the worst day yet of my parenting career.
My husband was away on military duty, and my family was in town....
In + Around Richmond
Being a Millennial Mom in 2019: What it’s Actually Like
“I wouldn’t want to raise a kid today.”
That’s what you’ll hear from most adults over the age of 50. As a 33-year-old “Millennial Mom”...
