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Baby, This Better Be Worth It

As I type this, it's about four days before my son starts preschool. It will be the first time in a full year that he will be someplace other than just with me all day. I tried to do the superwoman thing and make $50K a year while working from home, with no babysitter, and write books, and run two or three successful blogs, be a super responsive social media consultant, edit manuscripts, make … [Continue reading...]

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On My Own: Why Living By Myself Never Happened

I discovered I was pregnant my junior year of college. At the time, I had a roommate and we lived in the "cool" dorms. So that summer I went to New York and had a roommate there as part of the internship program I was completing. Then when I came back home to Ohio from the internship, I moved in with my boyfriend and we have been living together ever since. As a result, I have never (ever) … [Continue reading...]

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{YML Voices} I Knew I Was A Mom When…The Ultrasound Showed Two Heartbeats

by Wynter Pitts It’s one of the most memorable days of my life. I sat looking out of the window with a blank stare on my face and it felt like I was living inside of a silent movie scene, except it wasn’t quiet.   Somewhere in the distance I could hear a mixture of my husband’s voice, my two-year-old's and five year-old girl’s giggles and the hum of my small SUV’s engine, but it all seemed to … [Continue reading...]

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{YML Voices} 5 Things I Learned from Being a Teenage Mother

by Franchesca Lane-Warren I remember like it was yesterday. I was locked in a stall in my dorm bathroom anxiously awaiting the results of my pregnancy test. As I closed my eyes I thought, “Could I really be going through this?” Just months earlier, I had left my small town as the first person in my family to receive a scholarship to college. I remembered my parents beaming with pride as they … [Continue reading...]

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Damn, I’m Tired

What about you? Are you tired? Do you curse your alarm clock when it goes off in the morning? Do you hate the fact that you have to wake up when it's still so dark outside? Do you promise yourself that THIS will be the night you go to bed early, but then you drag yourself in the bed post-midnight once again? Would you give your left arm for a decent night's sleep that you wake up rested … [Continue reading...]

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Accepting (And Loving) The Chaos

My kitchen is always dirty. Always. No matter if I clean as I go while I'm cooking dinner, or if I put the dishes in the dishwasher before I go to bed, or if I clear off the counter before I start cooking. It just stays a mess. And I've given up, really, trying to keep it pristine. I think it's a waste of my energy at this point. Right now, I'm focused on many other things. I'm appreciating … [Continue reading...]

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VIDEO: “Life Is Not Over”

This is why I love the YML community. One of the fabulous mamas left this video on the Facebook page (join the conversation if you haven't already!) In it, a vlogger gets a question from a viewer who wants to know if she should keep her baby, at 19 and pregnant. Check out her response below:   … [Continue reading...]

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On Motherhood: You’re Probably A Better Mother Than You Think

As I sat in class yesterday, I took the opportunity to jot down a quick to-do list to get stuff off my mind and onto paper so I could focus on the discussion we were having about work-life balance (ironic, yes). We were discussing the fact that so many people are striving for work-life balance but what does that mean? I argued that it doesn't.mean.anything. All this time I've been trying to … [Continue reading...]

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