When the doctor first handed me each of my three children, I couldn’t believe that here in my arms was a perfect, untainted little soul, a sweet baby smell, a head full of soft hair (at least for my kids), and, scarily enough, a blank slate, completely devoid of experience in how the world works […]
Carrie on Parenting: 10 Truths I’ve Learned as a Stay at Home Mom
Two years ago, if you had told me I would be a stay at home mom living in Arkansas, I would have laughed in your face and asked if you’d had your meds this morning. I was days from giving birth to our third child and an 11-year veteran high school English teacher in the Nashville […]
The “BroMantic Momedy”: An Analysis of the Two-Couple Friendship Dichotomy
The Bro-Mantic Mom-Edy: (n) Two couples hanging out together, trying to decide if this four-person-friendship thing is gonna work. Please forgive the combining of words, but this is a thing that needed a name. It’s like dating, only harder in some ways, as there are now two couples and four personalities making sure they can […]
Dear 25yo Carrie (A Letter to Myself from the Future)
Dear 25yo Carrie, I’m writing to you from the future. Yes, the future. Right now, you’re 25, and I’m about to be 37. I have 12 years of intimate Carrie knowledge (and a few surprises) to pass on in only a short amount of time. So, listen up. ***And if you want some MAJOR spoilers, you can […]
The First Drop-Off
This morning, I saw a mom drop off her 2.5yo daughter for the very first time at daycare. She was juggling a large bag of supplies, her beautiful redhead who had begged mama to go to school, and a toddler dragging behind. The mama was fighting tears. “What do I do?” she asked me in […]
Carrie On Parenting: Worrying WAY TOO EARLY About My Kids’ Spouses?!?
In 2010 at a family reunion, we joyously cut into a “gender reveal” blue cake and officially prepared to welcome our second child into the world. A boy! A little brother for our daughter…nothing could have been more perfect. And then my grandmother looked over at me and said , “You know what they say: […]
It Ain’t Easy Bein’ RWG (Refugees Without Grandparents)
We joined the RWG’s back in 2013 when we moved from middle Tennessee, a mere hour and a half from our three sets of sweet grandparents, to central Arkansas, where those same grandparents who easily made day trips to see us and drove home to sleep in their own beds…must now drive 7.5 hours one […]
Car Line Courtesy: Sadly, Not So Common Anymore
As a mom of three children, ages 7, 4, and almost 2, I sit in a lot of car lines waiting for my kids. I wait to drop them off, I wait to pick them up, I wait. And wait. I attempt to appease those unlucky kids who are in the back seat also waiting […]
Part 2: Dear Targeted Marketing People, Oops, You Did It Again!
The other day, I received a comically-inappropriate-for-my-stage-of-life magazine in the mail, and I proceeded to match the magazine’s outfits with my daily activities as a stay-at-home mom to three young kids. I laughed it off as a marketing mistake and moved on. Well, guess what? Another copy of Mercury (not the magazine’s real title) […]
How I Knew We Were Finished Having Kids
It is the greatest joy and privilege of my life to be a mom to our three beautiful kids. They are funny, smart, kind, loving, and growing up so quickly. We are learning to navigate so many new stages, the ways our children handle situations differently, how birth order may or may not affect their behavior, and the […]
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