AleksandarGeorgiev/E+/Getty Images Relationships are hard, even the best ones. It’s hard to think about other people, it’s hard to focus on someone else’s love language, and it’s hard to nurture a strong and loving relationship when you’ve also got small children to take care of. Even the smallest issues can feel like huge mountains, and there’s probably something to the science of being incredibly overstimulated and how it affects your relationship. And that’s why, sometimes, you just need to confess your feelings. This week’s Scary Mommy Confessions are all about our deepest thoughts and confessions on our relationships: the not-so-good,...
The 19 Books That Made Us Fall In Love With Reading As Kids
Catherine Delahaye/DigitalVision/Getty Images If you ask anyone what their favorite book was as a kid, something magic happens: They get a wistful expression on their face, and nearly always share the title as well as a special memory about it. For me, it was The Phantom Tollbooth, which I read while sitting in a big orange tree outside my grandparents’ house in their 55+ mobile home community (as I did with many more books after that). If you ask a group of professional writers and editors this question, you’re going to get way more than one excited answer — which...
The Mine Tan Dark Ash Foam Is The One Self-Tanner To Rule Them All
Bustle/Getty As someone who has been self-tanning for years, I’m always eager to check out new tanning products when they hit the shelves. Lord knows we’ve come a long way since I used to glom on Jergen’s Natural Glow every night in high school and hope for the best. So when self-tan products started marketing themselves as violet-based, blue-based, or green-based, I took note. These tans are essentially meant to color-correct, and the undertones help you find a tan that matches your natural skin tone and truly looks like your skin — but tan (not an orange layer on top)....
Let Her Style Shine With Jordan’s Confident Era Collection
We’ll say what we already know: most 10-year-olds have better style than their parents. While moms are mastering the art of functional fashion, their daughters are out here serving looks that would make fashion bloggers weep with envy. This is a far cry from the days when our biggest fashion decision was whether to wear our butterfly clips or save them for something special. Jordan Brand’s new ‘Confident Era’ campaign knows that the current crop of tween girls didn’t just come to play. If anything, they came to run the show. Built on the same foundation of greatness that’s powered...