Motherhood Mondays – Page 3

A Motherhood Realization I Had While Ice Skating

We are at the public outdoor skating rink in our city, and it is cold, but I am hot. Sweat

When I received a copy of the children’s book, Mixed Feelings, by New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck, I couldn’t wait to

Crikey, 100% of Cup of Jo teammates have sick children at home today — colds, stomachaches, the works — so we’re

We have the kind of big family where everyone talks at exactly the same time, but weirdly also hears what

I am so not-an-artist that when my kids recently asked me to draw a dog (a dog!) I couldn’t begin

A couple weeks ago, I pulled into the grocery-store parking lot with my three–year-old Ella and 10-month-old Emiliano… Our trip

My friend Alison just got a surprising tattoo… A bowl of shrimp cocktail. “When my dad died in 2022, I

Last week, I read an email from a reader named J. that struck close to home… “Our baby is in

Today, I opened my email to see Brooke Barker’s newsletter about how a teenager complimented her outfit this weekend. The

When the kids were younger, I spent a lot of one-on-one time with each of them. Toby and I would