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Advice For Second-Time Moms
After two years of being a second-time mom, I figured that I offer some advice for second-time moms that they may find helpful. When I was pregnant with my second daughter, I had so many thoughts cross my mind. Would I be able to handle two young children at once? How is my older daughter going to react to her baby sister? If you are either considering becoming a second-time mom or are currently pregnant with your second child, then you have likely had these same thoughts as well. While I was pregnant with my younger daughter, I tried to…
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Starting A Blog As A Stay At Home Mom
After being in the blogging game for 3 years, I am finally talking about how I started a blog as a stay-at-home mom. For those that know about me, then you may know how this journey started. But for those who don’t, here is a quick recap. I started this blog in 2020 as a stay-at-home mom of just 1 back then. My oldest daughter was 18 months old at the time and I ultimately started this blog as an outlet for myself. I was really struggling mentally as a new stay-at-home mom and trying to find an identity outside…
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How I Cope With Feeling Touched Out As A Mom Of 2
As a mom of 2, it is really easy for me to start feeling touched out. For anyone who may be new here, I have an almost 2-year-old (22 months) and a 4-year-old. So I have smaller children. And I’m also a stay-at-home mom so this mama is in mom mode 24/7. I can only speak from my perspective as a stay-at-home mom of 2, but there is a point by the end of each day when I start feeling overstimulated and touched out. Between tending to and breastfeeding my toddler all day and then trying to tend to everyone…
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Myths About Black Stay At Home Moms
You all would be surprised by some of the myths about black stay-at-home moms that I have heard. For those that don’t know, I am a stay-at-home mom and I am also a black woman. So that makes me a black stay-at-home mom. You may be wondering why the emphasis on being a “black” stay-at-home mom. Well in my experience, I don’t run across many black stay-at-home moms. It’s dang near unheard of in my own family because most of the women in my family worked while raising kids. So you can probably imagine the confused and puzzled expressions I…
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New Year’s Resolutions For Moms
With the new year here, I want to share some New Year’s resolutions for moms that I have made as a mom of 2. If you have all been keeping up with me on the blog, then you know I shared some New Year’s resolutions last year that we made as a family. I found myself looking back through that post recently to see if we accomplished or maintained any of those resolutions. And I noticed that we did a pretty good job maintaining our resolutions throughout the year. The one thing that we didn’t do was take professional family…
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How To Be A Grateful Stay-At-Home Mom
It took some time but I am able to finally feel content and grateful to be a stay-at-home mom. If you have been following me for a while and know about me, then you know being a stay-at-home mom was not something that I thought I would be. I never thought that I would be a stay-at-home mom. It was just something that I wasn’t interested in being. My mom and my grandma were working parents so I figured that I would also be a working parent once I had children. I had it all planned out on how things…
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Making Time For Yourself As A Stay At Home Mom
If there is anything I have learned as a mom, it is important that I’m making time for myself. This is especially true since I’m also a stay-at-home mom. For anyone new here, I’m a stay-at-home mom to my 11-month-old baby girl and my 3-year-old daughter. And as much I love being around my girls, this mama needs some solid me-time every once in a while. My husband works long hours Monday through Friday so it’s just me and the girls the majority of the time. Since I’m the one with the girls most of the time, my breaks usually…
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How To Be A Happy Stay At Home Mom With A Baby
When I became a stay-at-home mom, I knew that I wanted to be a happy stay-at-home mom. If you have read about me, then you know that I kind of stumbled into being a stay-at-home mom. It did not come to me naturally. If you want me to be completely honest, I was terrible at being a stay-at-home mom at the beginning of this journey. The only thing I did right was keeping my daughter alive. Which is only part of being a stay-at-home mom. I used to think “How did other stay-at-home moms manage to get things done, keep…
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Preventing Postpartum Depression The Second Time Around
Now that I’m a second-time mom, I have been working on being more preventative in dealing with postpartum depression for a second time. If you all have been keeping up with me on the blog for the past couple of years, then you know that I experienced postpartum depression as a first-time mom. During the first year of my oldest daughter’s life, I was struggling. Even though becoming a new mom was something that I was excited about and looked forward to, it still caught me off guard. I wasn’t prepared for the demand and commitment that comes with motherhood.…
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What To Expect As A Black Stay At Home Mom
If you all have been following me on the blog and read about me, then you know that I am a black stay-at-home mom. I didn’t plan on being a stay-at-home mom, but it just kind of happened. Shortly after, I became a mom in my mid-twenties while finishing up my degree, my husband and I decided that I would stay home with our daughter. With the way daycare prices are set up, we figured out that it would be cheaper for me to stay home. So I did. But I was not prepared for what being home with a…
