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Kristen Young, a mother of one, is an attorney working in the northeast and struggling to develop a work-life balance, be a mom, and continue to challenge herself.
"Aunt Kris, can you throw me up in the air just like Sam?" asked my four year-old niece Abby.   "Yes," I explained, "as soon as I put Sam down.  He can't swim yet."   I continued to toss my two year old son up into ... Read more...
Last night, as my husband and I were laying in bed with our two year old son between us, I felt a tapping on my leg.  We couldn't speak to each other in words for fear of waking the baby who had only just fallen asleep after a bedtime story.  I crawled to the ... Read more...
When I was a child, my mother stayed at home.  We lived on a street where most of the mothers stayed at home, and my mother was friends with our neighbors.  Summer afternoons were spent running between houses.  You might eat lunch at your house, or Sean' ... Read more...
I was raised Catholic and my husband was raised loosely Christian. Neither one of us practice a religion, though we celebrate, in a secular way, Christmas and Easter. Before having our first child, we decided to raise him without religion. My husband and I were marr ... Read more...
From the time that I was in high school until I became a mother, my motto had always been, "If it does not kill you, it only makes you stronger." Not bad words to live by, but certainly not positive ones, since the outcome might be death.   Read more...