OC Mom Collective

My toddler recently had a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy and I am just about surviving! While it is fresh in my mind I thought I would go through the things that have helped us get through these 2 weeks. Before the...

When I first heard about Snapchat oh so long ago it was in the news as another way for teenagers to send not so private photos of each other to each other without the risk of those photos getting...

I’m turning the big “Three-Oh” this year and it has me doing all kinds of introspection-y type things. I don’t hate or dread getting older; in fact, quite the opposite. You see, I’m like a fine wine – I just...

I didn't choose to be a stay at home mummy. Sometimes I feel like I shouldn't tell people that like I need to be constantly and eternally grateful to have the gift of staying home with my boys. But you...

Happy Meal. The dreaded words that cause my toddler to ecstatically grin ear to ear. My two-year-old is obsessed with the golden arches and the contents of the child crack. I knew this day would come especially since some late night...

As a busy full time working mom, I don't have much time to myself to be able to go to the mall to shop for clothes. If I ever have a free second to go clothes shopping, I usually...

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Here's the thing about pumping: It sucks. Literally. Between the constant cleaning, the discomfort, the alienation, and the indignity of feeling like a milk cow, it's hard to fault anyone for throwing in the towel. That any mom, especially working...

Breastfeeding. When I was pregnant with my first I wasn't sure if I wanted to do it. It sounded easy from what we were told at antenatal classes and read online, but I just wasn't sure if it was for...

I had a moment yesterday when I inserted my card into the chip reader. The moment where my nose crinkled, my heart fluttered and my brain got a little warm. I was spending a hefty chunk of change on...

Husband was adamant about buying our 22-month-old son his own seat on our flight to Maui. Even though we could lap him for free, and spend the money on cocktails I agreed that the extra room for the wiggle...

Scary Mommy comes to visit occasionally at our house. She doesn’t say mean things to the kids, but she yells and sometimes points her finger in your face. This is the side of me that I never want my kids...

I was going to write a light-hearted advice piece about clothing. But after the tragedies that occurred this past week, and the current state of police brutality and race in America, writing about something relatively frivolous just didn't feel...

I got out of my dad's car and kissed the sidewalk in an attempt to make light of the fact that I was a wreck leading up to this trip. I made it home alive from a "kid-free" trip...