It’s a question I asked myself over and over during the last month or so as a first time candidate for public office. I was told it would be a lot of work, but juggling career and family duties with securing votes in an effort to become Town Clerk was certainly more challenging than I
Tag: daughters
Laughs Our daughter has my husband’s sense of humor, which I love. She’s at a stage now where she knows how to be funny – and knows what will get us to laugh. There’s a face she makes where she scrunches her features up in a silly scowl, then opens up her eyes wide in
No, this isn’t a blog about football, but it is about surviving and thriving as a working mother. At 62 I’ve been married to the same wonderful man for 37 years, raised 4 beautiful daughters and am the proud grandma of 3 toddler grandsons. I’ve worked since I was 16 (as most of us have)
If you have young children, chances are you have seen (or at lease heard of) the Disney movie Brave. Months ago I rented the movie to watch with my daughter Caroline. She began taking an interest in other Disney princess movies, like Cinderella, and so I wanted to show her a different type of princess. The main character,
I am every mother. I am a mother of one, two, or three, or more. I am a mother of multiples. I am a new mother. I am a pregnant mother. I am a working mother or a stay at-home mother. I am inspired by all the moms I see on a daily basis. I
Today is a tribute to my amazing mother who somehow raised four daughters (and well), worked and kept her sanity. Being a mother now I have absolutely no freaking clue how she did not have a nervous breakdown or screw us up big time, but somehow she survived and has come out on the other
Here in the Allard household we don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day. It was never a big deal to us when we were dating and that didn’t change once we were married. But, it has always been my mom’s favorite holiday, and she always made a big deal out of it for us. There was always candy,
There’s a moment, late in the evening every Wednesday, when I regret that my daughter will be spending all of the next day with her grandparents. There are many other moments throughout the rest of the week where I find myself doing the opposite, and I’m counting down the minutes to some baby-free time on
