Central Mass Mom

Vacations and travel are going to be a bit different for a lot of families this year. With travel restrictions and many avoiding air travel, there might be some long-distance car rides in your future. You might even find...

The smell. The mess. The hair EVERYWHERE. Nagging the kids to keep the food and water dishes full. Having a dog was such a nuisance. In my eyes, it was more work - another mouth to feed which created...

I have had weight issues most of my life and have struggled with eating disorders since high school. After years of gaining, losing, and regaining weight, I have only recently realized that my self worth isn’t correlated to a...

Every day, every moment is a conscious effort for me to not get sucked into the fear. There is a battle in my own head very much like the movie "Inside Out", with opposing voices competing for my attention. “I love...

As a pregnant woman today, you get asked about a thousand times how you plan to feed your baby. "Are you planning to breastfeed?" is a question that gets tossed around without much thought. Whenever people asked me, I...

Everyone has heard about sleep regressions. But what if I told you that sleep regressions are anything but a regression? Regressions are a “return to a former or lesser developed state” (Oxford). That cannot be further from what is...

“Homeschooling Summit: Problems, Politics, and Prospects for Reform” is an invitation-only meeting slated for June and, so far, appears to be one-sided with an agenda against homeschooling. Shortly after the summit was announced, an article in the Harvard Magazine was...

This year, I made you a grandmother. You’re welcome. Seeing you with her has been so much fun. Although your youngest child is now 32, I guess holding a baby is like riding a bike. You know just what...

I often try to think back on what some of my earliest memories were as a child. It’s hard to tease apart which memories are real and true versus what my brain has put together from glimpses of photographs...

  There’s really no delicate way to put this. When you have your first baby, you wave goodbye to your former life. Gulp. But, hear me out... I’m going to wrap up my new-mama revelation with a really pretty pink...