
What Mom Life Means to Me
Being a mom is who I am. However, it is not all that I am.
Right now my kids are young. They take the majority of my focus every day. Those little munchkins mean the world to me. I enjoy the time I have providing for them, but I think it's monumentally important to make sure that I do not lose who I am in my kids.
This is my attempt to make sure that doesn't happen. I try to make it a priority every day to do things for myself aside from the things that I do for and with my kids and my husband. There are so many aspects of what make me the woman that I am, it just so happens that my main title these days is mom. Or mama, if I get to choose. I think of this section of my blog as the place for me to share not only who I am as a mom, but also who I am when I am simply Anya.

Letting Go
January 13, 2021Boundaries are about you … and not anyone else. Which brings me to my topic for today’s post: letting go. I saw … Read More

Managing Expectation
December 9, 2020Expectation. It’s a big word. And, tell me if it’s just me, I find that I am full of them. I expect the kids to listen—haha at least I did … Read More

A Few Things You Might Not Know About Me
November 20, 2020In an effort to lighten things up after my last post, I thought I’d share a few things about me that you might not know. If you are close … Read More

The Hardest Phase
November 18, 2020This has been the hardest phase of parenting for me, personally, this far. Other than the newborn stage with Archer … I think we parents … Read More

To Do List
October 21, 2020Does anyone else out there keep a To Do List? I know I can’t be alone! Though I will be the first to admit that my lists have gotten … Read More

Stop Apologizing
October 9, 2020Stop apologizing. That is basically all. Except this is me we’re talking about, and I always have more to say than that! On the heels of my … Read More

Highlights From My Last Week in Pictures
September 18, 2020Highlights from my last week in pictures. Often, when I find that I have nothing pressing that I want to write about for the blog, I turn … Read More

Gently Wake
September 16, 2020We’ve all heard the saying “never wake a sleeping baby,” right? But what if you gently wake them? In all my parenting fails—and there are … Read More

Take a Break
September 9, 2020I needed to take a break … This has been a rough season. I know that it’s been that way for a lot of people, but I’ve struggled. I’m … … Read More

The Shoulds
August 19, 2020I have been trying to forget the shoulds lately. We should stay home and clean house. We went for a family bike ride instead. I should be … Read More