Happy Mom Secret #2: make your bed.
Or keep your dining room table clear. Or sweep under your dining-room table regularly. Or make sure your dressers aren’t overstuffed with clothes so they don’t shut all the way. The point is, all of us...
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Five for Ten: The Courage To Mother
As you may have noticed, brevity is not my strong suit. Most of my blog posts break every web-writing rule in the book, running long, long, longer than 1000 words long. That’s lengthier than most...
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I am a mother. But first, I was just me.
I’ve been thinking all day about a blog post written by my friend Kyran Pittman, an amazing writer, memoirist and mother of three. In the post Kyran explores the idea of what keeps us going as we age,...
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My approach to holiday traditions: sit back, and let them happen
This post is by Sarah Powers, Happiest Mom contributor and Managing Editor, and blogger at Powers of Mine. I can hear it. Can you? That little voice that begins with a whisper just after Thanksgiving...
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the mundane & the magnificent
This guest post is by Lindsey Mead, writer and blogger at A Design So Vast. This last Sunday was one of those rare days I’ve come to treasure almost above all others: a day with absolutely no plans. We...
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Young Moms: Something To Prove?
This is a guest post by Chaunie Brusie of Tiny Blue Lines. A few months ago, at the age of 26, I was heavily pregnant with my third child. Pushing my brood in the grocery store, diapers and cereal...
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How to make a new house feel like home
Image by Brittney Bush Bollay Two months ago, we said goodbye to a house our whole family loved. As we packed, I ached: I knew I’d miss the brilliant natural light in the master bedroom, the wide-open...
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Mother’s Hierarchy of Needs
Wayback machine time! This was one of my very first posts here at The Happiest Mom, dating back to June 2009 (which is right around when the above photo was taken). It’s still one of the most read, so...
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So, how can YOU be a happier mom?
my mug (a gift from Sarah!) is one little thing that makes me happy. Recently, a reader named Lily sent me an email, and graciously agreed to allow me to post it here. Lily said: “I envy you and other...
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How I (don’t) do it all.
Recently a reader, Julie, sent me the following question: My question is about how in the world you manage your time to post to several blogs/monitor all the comments/write for other blogs/write...
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The Tao of Kitchen Shelving: On stopping panic before it starts
This post is by Heather Caliri, regular contributor to The Happiest Home and blogger at A Little Yes. Heather writes about saying “yes” to little things that scare us. You can read all her posts here....
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Happy Mom Secret #2: make your bed.
Or keep your dining room table clear. Or sweep under your dining-room table regularly. Or make sure your dressers aren’t overstuffed with clothes so they don’t shut all the way. The point is, all of us...
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Why winter is like early motherhood (and why it’s best to surrender to both)
Every Sunday morning I share a moment from my week and something it illustrated about motherhood, family life, or simply being human. I invite you to set aside a moment out of your weekend for...
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shopping, showers & self-sacrifice: the lesson of the blue dress
* Let me know if you’re guilty of this, moms: you shop sales racks looking for what you can get at a good price rather than what makes your heart sing. You buy things that seem like good bargains, even...
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Yes, Moms, You DO Have Time For A Shower
The other day I was having your typical toddler-hanging-on-leg, breakfast-dishes-piling-up, hair-sticking-up morning. As the kids demanded endless cups of milk and help fitting Lego men’s legs back...
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About That Old Lady In The Grocery Store…
I’ve been mulling over a blog post written by Glennon, a blogger and mother of three young children. The post, which has turned up on my Facebook feed at least seven times today, is all about the idea...
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For The Mom Who Hates The Swings
I hate the swings. They are the worst. Because little kids can’t do the swings themselves, you see. You can’t pop them up onto the seat and then walk away, leaving them dangling there motionless. Until...
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