Why I Love Being An Early Mama

CATEGORY ARCHIVES: Why I Love Being an Early Mama

Slate Reports What We Knew All Along…

03.7.13

Well maybe not all along — maybe not when we were staring at a positive pregnancy test, imagining our lives (and our careers and our relationships and our bodies) circling the drain. Maybe not when we felt stares at the grocery store

Reason #23: Having Kids Young Might Be Best for your Career

01.14.13

I wrote about this on our Facebook page and on Babble.com, but in case you missed it, this might be a major perk for us early mamas. A major perk that directly negates so much of the negativity surrounding

Reason #22: Purpose

11.12.12

I’ve gone through somewhat of a personal evolution since starting Early Mama: learning how to be a good mother, then striving to be a better wife, and now? Now I’m turning the lens inward, focusing on myself — my health,

Reason #21: Let’s Stay Home

01.20.12

I know this is hard for a lot of people to understand, considering my age and the young-ness that I “settled down” — but I have partied. Kind of a lot. I went to bars long before I was legally

Why We Love Being Early Mamas

01.12.12

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I started a series called “Why I Love Being an Early Mama” about 6 months ago, to list some of the benefits of choosing this earlier-than-the-norm path. We all know the drawbacks — drilled in from a society that says

Reason #20: Better Paths

01.4.12

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He runs across the grass, searching for hills and obstacles. You go this way, I’ll go that way. We’ll meet in the middle, he tells me. With authority. It’s New Year’s Day — Justin’s last day of vacation, our last

Reason #19: Always the Expert

12.1.11

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Continuing with our Why I Love Being a Young Mom series… This one can be flipped as a positive or a negative, depending on the way you look at it — but surprise, surprise, I’m choosing to be optimistic.

Reason #18: Non-Sexy Halloween

10.31.11

While other 25 year olds are lacing up corsets and sucking in their bare (freezing) bellies, I’d much rather be doing this.

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