Tag: female friendships

National Girlfriends Day:: Celebrating the Joy of Female Friendship

August 1 is National Girlfriends Day:: a day set aside to celebrate the joy of female friendship. Who knew this was a thing? buy...

A Love Letter to My New-Mom Friend

Contributor Lindsay shares a letter to a friend who just had a baby, with honest reflections on how motherhood is so hard, and yet so good at the same time.

An Ode to My Older Friends

The other day, I had an astonishing realization. Since moving to Houston in July 2017, I have made many more older female friends. I...

Mommy Friendships with a Twist of Sobriety

It started in our preschool days. Overwhelmed moms standing in pick up lines, dreaming of a night out with adults :: no potty training,...

Make New Friends but {Don’t Always} Keep the Old

I sat on the rickety porch steps outside of the Girl Scout cottage, waiting for my daughter Abby and her troop to finish their...

30 Going on 13 :: Mom Sleepovers Are a Thing and...

As moms, our minds go about a million miles an hour all day every day. We move from one task to another, because that...

An Ode to My Girlfriends on Galentine’s Day

What is Galentine's Day? I'll let the lovely Leslie Knopes explain it to you.  "Oh, it's only the best day of the year. Every February...