It was a week before my daughter’s sixth birthday and I mentally reviewed my list to make sure I had everything purchased for her big day. I am a HUGE lover of birthdays. I tend to turn mine into a month-long celebration, a tradition I hope to pass onto my children. I felt confident everything […]
Author Archives: Jennifer Louise Diaz
Mama Uber to the Rescue
The sun sank low in the sky and I sat poolside, frozen in my seat, on the eve before school was to begin. My inability to move stemmed from the knowledge that the minute I left the safe confines of the fence, clutching my beloved beach chair, the fast forward button would instantly be engaged. […]
The Search for Utopia
Summer, for a mama, is consumed with the constant slathering of sunscreen, a trail of wet swimsuits and towels, overstretched bedtimes and groggy mornings of half eaten bowls of cereal. It’s a series of joyful moments mixed with empty pantries and projects we never started which unceremoniously catapults us to mid-August, exhausted and staring down […]