Motherhood

When it comes to women who get pregnant after the age of 40, New York ranks high with older moms.

There is a video of an Apex, North Carolina mom that is making its rounds on the internet. This mom, Cher Lair and her husband Stephen have six boys and now a seventh child is due. But why is Cher screaming? What made her fall to the floor? It was all due to the color of the cake at the baby gender reveal party.

Yesterday I lived a tiny sliver of the busy-single-mom life.  Granted, my child is not human, as you know (18-month-old yellow lab DJ doesn't constitute a daughter...though I'm sure she'd disagree), but it was still a marathon.

Motherhood is unique.  When I was pregnant with my first child, Jenna, someone told me that having a baby is like having your heart ripped out of your body and letting it walk around outside you for the rest of your life.  They were right.  If my kids are happy, I am.  If they're struggling, so am I.  I feel what they feel, except a hundred times more.  That's being a mom.

The passage of time can be scary. Seems like only yesterday the sitcom Punky Brewster was on NBC-TV. Now considered an 80’s sitcom, it starred Soleil Moon Frye as Penelope "Punky" Brewster.