Raising Daughters

Raising daughters is fun, challenging and the most amazing part of my life. As a single mom, my daughters need a strong, reliable roll model. As a mom, I need support, love and understanding. Parenting in general is better with usable parenting tips, parenting advice and a supportive friend along the way. ADayinMotherhood.com aims to be that friend! My posts offer honest and real life struggles and celebrations that surround motherhood!

‘No One Can Do It Better Than I Can’: The Motherhood Curse

‘No One Can Do It Better Than I Can’: The Motherhood Curse

No one can take care of my children better than I can. No they can't. No they can't! NO THEY CAN'T! OK, yes they can but I will not admit it, concede to it or acknowledge it no matter how rational your argument is! OK Fiiinnnneeeeeee..... I admit it. Begrudgingly and with a pouty face [...]

2016-05-11T15:35:46-05:00By Lori|Raising Daughters|41 Comments

Guilt: A Mom’s Experience with Melatonin

I am an old fashioned type Mom, I guess. My girls wear bloomers under their dresses, wear one pieces in the summer, don’t have pierced ears and I really want my girls to wait until 16 to date. I don’t care of other little girls do these things, in fact, I think there is nothing [...]

2016-05-11T15:35:46-05:00By Lori|Raising Daughters|15 Comments

My Big Fat Mommy Screw Up

My Big Fat Mommy Screw Up

Last night was the biggest mommy screw up of my mommyhood experience. And I have a LOT so you know it is huge! You already know how exhausting our bedtime routine is. And if not, please feel free to catch up, shake your head, and send coffee after reading Bedtime Ain’t for Sissies. So yesterday, [...]

2016-05-11T15:35:46-05:00By Lori|Raising Daughters|27 Comments

Bedtime Ain’t For Sissies

Bedtime Ain’t For Sissies

I just finished my 2.5 hour fight for bedtime. I now can be alone for the first time since 7 am. I am exhausted. I did have an hour where I left the house in tears because I am so exhausted. Tired of the not listening, the backtalk, the fighting, the whining and the constant [...]

2016-05-11T15:35:46-05:00By Lori|Raising Daughters|8 Comments

Perfectly Imperfect

Perfectly Imperfect

I make a lot of mistakes as a mom. I make a lot of mistakes as a daughter, a sister, and a friend. I admit it. I can live with it. Perfection is in the eye of the beholder anyway, isn’t it? If I were perfect, I would be boring. An auto reactive, decisively superior, gentile soul [...]

2016-05-11T15:35:46-05:00By Lori|Raising Daughters|29 Comments

The Grocery Shop of Horrors

The Grocery Shop of Horrors

Never again, as long as I live, will I take my three children anywhere on God’s green Earth without: 1) Valium 2) My CPS Auto Dial Number 3) another person to video the disaster in the making so I can see how ridiculously I probably handled it. […]

2016-05-11T15:35:46-05:00By Lori|Raising Daughters|4 Comments

10 Things I Never Thought I Would Say to My Children

10 Things I Never Thought I Would Say to My Children

I have three daughters, age 5 and under. They have supplied me with laughter, tears, frustration, and other typical mothering advantages. For a while now, I have been documenting things that I say throughout my days that just make me stop and shake my head or throw it back in laughter. I have filtered them [...]

2016-05-11T15:35:47-05:00By Lori|Raising Daughters|61 Comments

Embracing My Inner Bad Parent

Embracing My Inner Bad Parent

I am a not a square peg and I don’t fit into round holes. Or maybe it is that I am now too round to fit into a square hole. I don’t know. But I am not your typical suburban housewife raising kids, barefoot in the kitchen! In fact, I don’t think I fit into [...]

2016-05-11T15:35:47-05:00By Lori|Raising Daughters|8 Comments

Judging Me: The Perfect Mom Standard

Judging Me: The Perfect Mom Standard

I am a good mom. A really good mom. I make mistakes. I don’t get it all right and I am proudly not Carol Brady. But my kids are loved, cared for and spoiled in the right ways on a daily basis. […]

2016-05-11T15:35:47-05:00By Lori|Raising Daughters|70 Comments

A Single Mom, Three Kids & A Blog: Struggling to Balance it All

Back in October 2012, I met the most amazing woman on a Cruise on the Disney Magic. Placed at the same table as we were both moms with children there on our own, we struck up a bond and a friendship that I cherish to this day. Diana with Hormonal-Imbalances.com is a woman that deserves [...]

2016-05-11T15:35:47-05:00By Lori|Raising Daughters|52 Comments

Mommies Don’t Get Sick Days

I am sick. I don’t know what I have. Could be a bug, could be that the exhaustion of my schedule has caught up to me, could be that I have something else going on that I need to have diagnosed at a Doctor’s office. I don’t really know. All I know is that I [...]

2016-05-11T15:35:47-05:00By Lori|Raising Daughters|4 Comments

How to Be a ‘Patient Mom’

Wednesday’s are my busy, busy days. I would say I am generally not a patient mom on Wednesdays. I have to get up early, get myself and my girls all ready to go to their schools, work at the church daycare, pick up the girls and come home to make dinner. It does not seem [...]

2016-05-11T15:35:47-05:00By Lori|Raising Daughters|46 Comments

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