Losing my marbles

Leadership Mom: SWOT Analysis

In business, leaders often analyze our Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats through a SWOT analysis. So, if we are going to look at our role as moms as being the greatest leadership opportunity to us, let's start with analyzing ourselves and our kids. Here's the SWOT I developed for my family: Family SWOT Analysis As a doting mother, there are hundreds of strengths that I could put up here for my kids. Their hugs, kisses, bedtime stories and prayers, the fact that they come to me when they're seeking healing from an injury (physical or emotional), the notes and drawings they make for me, their precious hearts when they try to help me or that they've learned how to use the Keurig to bring me coffee in the morning...I could go on and on. Now, here's the part where we get honest with ourselves. Yes, we love our kids and we love our family (or, hopefully, most of the time), but we are not perfect. Nor should we be perfect. As we analyze oursel

Breastfeeding: Top 10

I've had several requests for another post about breastfeeding. So, here it is! Before having a baby, I thought that breastfeeding was going to be easy. After all, it's an innate practice of all mammals. How hard can it really be? Now, after seven months of breastfeeding, I can tell you that it is not easy. BUT, the good news is, it gets easier! As I've mentioned in previous blogs, I had a horrible time beginning with breastfeeding. It was extremely painful and I dreaded nursing times. I felt like a horrible mom. I didn't want to feed my child because I knew the pain that I was going to have to endure. There are moments - through pure exhaustion - when I couldn't control myself and screamed. Thankfully, I had a husband who was supportive and continued to encourage me and provide all of the support that he could in the form of talking to me, rubbing my back and shoulders, and assuring me that things would get better. We all know that breastmilk is the abs

Establishing Night Time Sleep

Since I assume that most of you reading this are either mothers or women who want to eventually be mothers, then we each know that our child (or child-to-be) is the brightest and most well-developed child out there (who wouldn't agree?!). Our prodigy child wants to see and do everything - especially at night. And, as mothers, we all know who gets to wake up during the middle of the night to teach Baby that, when the moon is out, we sleep...us! A mother's physical need for sleep seems to diminish during the first months after Baby arrives. But, our mental need for sleep is still ever present reminding us - day after day - that we are exhausted. Well, establishing night time sleep isn't impossible, and this blog will tell you how I did it and had my baby sleeping through the night by nine weeks old (which, for her age, was six hours of blessed, uninterrupted sleep). I read many books prior to Baby's arrival about establishing a good sleep habit. On Becoming Baby Wis

Murphy's Laws for Moms

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