Blogging about the daily joys and frustrations of modern motherhood.
I have been a stay-at-home-mom since mid-way through my second pregnancy. My youngest is 16 months old now, which means I haven't worked (outside my home, that is) in almost two years.
What I didn't expect was that sometimes I would feel lonely. I'm talking heart-wrenching, deep-in-my-bones loneliness.
Read MoreLike any basic mom living in Michigan, where it is stupidly frigid about half the year, I have several winter coats - a couple "nice" ones that I can wear to weddings or baby showers, a few pea coats I can throw on to go to the grocery store or a PTA meeting, and a super warm, unattractive one that I wear to play in the snow with my kids.
Read MoreValerie Jackson is a basic mom, a tolerable wife, and a self-deprecating writer. She is attempting to raise two young monsters into nice young ladies in Michigan. She has a law degree that’s only current use is to win arguments with her husband.
