by Growupbrite | Oct 17, 2021 | MOM LIfe
Growing up, I thought the plastic masks and flimsy costumes were the height of Halloween costumes. My mom wasn’t crafty, though she did sew on a cat’s tail for one of my costumes one year even though it was cold out, so I had to hide my tail under my bulky coat....
by Growupbrite | Oct 10, 2021 | MOM LIfe
For years I struggled with falling asleep at night. I was exhausted, but the minute my head hit my pillow, I was thinking about all the things I needed to get done or hadn’t done, going over conversations that I wished I could change, or simply worrying about...
by Growupbrite | Oct 3, 2021 | MOM LIfe
In my recent Instagram post, I shared that I’ve struggled with negative self-talk a lot in my motherhood journey. In fact, I wasn’t even aware of how bad it was until I heard my son repeat the same things I said in a whisper to myself. When I had minor mishaps or...
by Growupbrite | Sep 26, 2021 | MOM LIfe
I found myself sitting on a picture-perfect day on my sofa in our den lost, bingeing back-to-back Grey’s Anatomy episodes and making excuses to my friends about why I needed to cancel meeting up at the park and just felt like I couldn’t move. My kids were happily...
by Growupbrite | Sep 19, 2021 | MOM LIfe
Over the years fathers have done an amazing job setting boundaries for themselves and creating peaceful places for them to go and get away from the real world. And it’s an approach that overall has been widely accepted by society, enough so that a father’s sacred...
by Growupbrite | Sep 12, 2021 | MOM LIfe
I’ll be the first to admit my kids are not my whole world. But before you sputter and gasp at this cringeworthy admission, hear me out. My kids are my number one priority and play a central role in my life; but they are not my world. Why? Because it’s an...
