by Rachel | The Naptime Projects | Mar 15, 2018 | Motherhood
Becoming a mom is a beautiful, exciting, terrifying, overwhelming, and joyful experience. There are so many changes happening in your life all at once and it’s hard to know if you are prepared or not. The truth is, you probably won’t ever be fully prepared. But...
by Rachel | The Naptime Projects | Feb 22, 2018 | Motherhood
Hospital bags are hard to pack. Everyone has something different they said they couldn’t live without but someone else says the same thing isn’t necessary. Unfortunately, it’s a completely personal thing. You really won’t know what YOU needed until you’re already in...
by Rachel | The Naptime Projects | Feb 15, 2018 | Motherhood
When we got pregnant with our little man, we were living in a small one bedroom apartment. We had gotten married only 4 months before that so I had purged all of my extra stuff before moving in. So when it came to nesting, I really didn’t have much mess to deep clean...
by Rachel | The Naptime Projects | Feb 8, 2018 | Motherhood
Becoming a stay at home mom has a lot of emotions surrounding it. When you are expecting, you imagine these lovely slow mornings full of cuddles and sleepy smiles with your newborn. You imagine it transitioning into sweet mornings of building towers with blocks with...
by Rachel | The Naptime Projects | Jan 11, 2018 | Motherhood
Your house is a mess, you yelled at your kids over something small, and you have no idea what’s for dinner. Maybe you and your husband decided to take a weekend away and you feel guilty for leaving the kids with a sitter. Or perhaps you do it all by the book but...
by Rachel | The Naptime Projects | Jan 4, 2018 | Motherhood
~A Guest Post by Laura at The Mindful Mom Blographer~ Sometimes life can be hard, especially as a mom. I am a mom to a very active toddler and I get it. Us moms are constantly being pulled in multiple directions and have countless items on our to-do list. Often, time...
by Rachel | The Naptime Projects | Dec 7, 2017 | Motherhood
We live in a world where everyone has an opinion on everything. And most people like to voice their opinion to anyone and everyone. This can be okay, and has its place, but when you start believing that your opinion is fact, issues begin to arise. If you are in the...
by Rachel | The Naptime Projects | Nov 30, 2017 | Motherhood
Making friends is a struggle for me. Part of it is that I was raised in the same town I was born in and went to a K-12 school, so I never had a need to make a ton of new friends. Naturally, my friend groups somewhat changed as I moved through school, but I always at...
by Rachel | The Naptime Projects | Nov 16, 2017 | Motherhood
No one will debate that motherhood is hard. I mean, the job description is literally this: you are solely responsible for keeping a tiny human alive almost twenty-four seven. And a lot of mommas are responsible for multiple tiny humans all at once. Not only do we have...
by Rachel | The Naptime Projects | Nov 10, 2017 | Motherhood
The holidays are a natural breeder for mom guilt. Really any busy season is, but there’s something about the Thanksgiving and Christmas season that seems to grow mom guilt at an alarming rate. The number of activities available to over-commit to, the pressure to make...
