Making sense of motherhood and the world around us
For the past four years, Chauncia Boyd Rogers and her daughter Ava have created photo portraits of iconic African-American woman during Black History Month.
Their work has become a viral sensation on the Internet. Pictures of Ava, now 8, dressed up as Harriet Tubman, Angela Davis, and Oprah Winfrey circulate on social media year-round. [Read more…]
Enjoying some quiet time. In the car.
Trigger Warning: This is a MOM RANT.
I am sitting in my car right now. In my driveway. Typing. Sipping Coffee. In bliss.
Because there’s a two-year-old snoring in her car seat in the back. And I dare not disturb her.
This is what it has come to folks. This is the only way I can find some time to myself, undisturbed, to make to-do lists and write and scroll through Facebook and Instagram and shop on Amazon and Imagine The Possibilities of whatever, collect my thoughts and steady my nerves to get through lunch hour, a bath, and hopefully nap time. [Read more…]
There’s really no place to hide from the flu this time of year.
Honestly, it seems like everyone’s had it and a lot of my friends are on their second round of the illness. With a toddler at home and a four-year-old in daycare, I resigned myself to the idea that the flu would catch up with my family sooner or later.
So this week, it caught up with the most vulnerable and sleep-deprived member of the family: ME! [Read more…]
Check out the Facebook Live video I did the other day for a quick, DIY hair and scalp moisturizer for Winter. You will need to click on the read more tab to actually hear the video. [Read more…]
