Westend61/Westend61/Getty Images; samkelly_world The perpetual problem in my household always comes down to the mental load. My husband and I just never seem to find a rhythm when it comes to household management (dishes, lawn work, organizing, etc.) along with everything else that comes with being a human (taking the dog to the vet, car...
@downsizeupgrade / TikTok Life will have other plans for us as we try to ease into 2025. Kids have sports, and we have work. There are practices and rehearsals, get-togethers, and birthday parties. We’re all running around to “do it all,” and we typically put aside the one thing that matters: quality time with our...
Kier Gaines / TikTok We’ve all heard the term “default parent.” That’s the parent who does the majority of the labor in the household, and not just the cooking and cleaning and child-rearing, but the mental load too. The schedules, the meal planning, etc. It’s a lot. So, when we pick partners who are actually...
Scary Mommy; Amazon Welp, we made it! Here we are in the final calendar month of the year, and it’s almost over — but there’s still enough time in December to make a few last-minute Amazon purchases. While the Scary Mommy team has been preoccupied with holiday gifting lately (like most moms, in all likelihood),...