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Our happy baby 😊 We just got back home from our first real family vacation and now that the hard stuff is behind us (9 checked bags plus a stroller!) I realize how much they both grew in a week away. Fresh off his 4th birthday, our 4-year-old gave us our first taste of having a teenager. As soon as we got to the airport, mom and dad became chopped liver. He swam all day and in a matter of hours figured out how to go down the slide and swim to the side of the pool on his own. He relished every opportunity to talk up strangers in the hallway and elevator. Sitting in the pilot’s chair capped off the best week of his life. He was crushed when we got home and the reality set in that vacation was over and he wouldn’t be with his beloved Nana 24/7. This morning he was all hugs again. Our youngest redefined mama’s boy. We were attached at the hip from 5am (or earlier) to bedtime. Luckily our vacation preferences were right in sync: morning walks at sunrise and lots of poolside lounging. His vocabulary grew and he starting nodding every time I asked him a question. No surprise, he danced and charmed his way around the resort. He also showed his shy side and love for calm moments, just like mama. Our patience as parents was tested, even in paradise, and we had to adjust our expectations of what vacation means when you have two little humans to design your day around. We savored the post-bedtime dinners and hour we relaxed at the adult pool with honeymooners. It took a few days and a wildfire to finally gain perspective, but we finally found about 48 hours of relaxation. 😊 The days are long and we don’t sleep as much as we’d like to. But this little moment reminded me how much our boys are growing and changing everyday, constantly learning, and curious about the world around them. #reframe #letthembelittle #pause #motherhoodunfiltered #gratitude #inthemoment #parentingwin Author and workplace culture advocate @LisenStromberg has a message for her younger self, and for all of us who feel overwhelmed as working mothers of young children. “I remember feeling panicked all the time that I wasn’t doing what was best for my children, and I wish I was a little kinder to myself.” She describes her memories of “being in a constant state of triage.” “Before 8 a.m. we’ve got to get clothes on, teeth brushed, lunches packed, baby breastfed,” the mother of three recalls — and all before the work day begins. Lisen describes this ability to juggle as “accordion-like,” where moms are capable of expanding and contracting “in a beautiful way.” “I wish I had known that my capacity would expand and I would be able to do all those things — not always well — and the kids would live through it.” Since we talked in January about her book, Work PAUSE Thrive: How to Pause for Parenthood Without Killing Your Career, I took a pause of sorts from writing, while I transitioned into a new job and dealt with an intense new chapter of parenting. In the eight months since then, I’ve found myself repeating Lisen’s mantras–and sharing them with other moms navigating career and parenting pivots of their own. “Frankly when I was a new mother, in some ways professionally that was a productive phase of my career because I was so darn focused and so capable of getting everything that needed to happen done,” she says. “And that’s a powerful place to be.” It helps to hear–from someone who’s lived through it–that this stage of parenting can be a “Phoenix rising” moment, as Lisen describes it. She also believes all the hormones coursing through us in early motherhood are actually a benefit. “You’re just like on fire in this gorgeous way,” she says. “At the time it feels like hell.” And that cocktail of physiology and limited time can lead to clarity. “I got very clear on what I needed to do and who I was fighting for,” she says. “In my case I was fighting for my kids and my future.” Read her full story at BestfortheMoment.com #linkinbio #workingmom #mompreneur #momboss #careerchange #pause #maternityleave #childcare #workplaceculture Trying to make peace when things don’t go as planned. 🙏🏼 While I was feeling frustrated that my almost 4-year-old ditched soccer practice to go hang out in the library with Papa, his spontaneous puppet show for all the other kids and parents gave us a good laugh #reframe #letthembelittle #motherhoodunfiltered #pause #gratitude #takethepressureoff #inthemoment It’s taken six months to finally accept that this chaotic chapter of parenting doesn’t have the typical story arc–that it may never come to an end. But hearing from others who’ve been through hell and back with their own families’ challenges reminds me how important it is to share our stories with each other. We’re juggling a mix of overwhelming knowns and unknowns, like anyone with food allergies. In many ways we’re very lucky, but that doesn’t prevent the ever-present feeling of dread when anything made out of peanuts, eggs or milk are being consumed in the same room, smeared across hands and mouths, dropped on the floor, or left in the sink. __________________ After learning about the nutritional deficiencies that milk-allergy infants and toddlers are susceptible to, we came up with a Google spreadsheet that left no stone unturned. We track every serving, every food group, every ounce of hypoallergenic formula and every critical nutrient’s daily recommended intake and tolerable upper limit. The menu changes every week as our now 15-month-old (and I) get more adventurous. We’re still combining fruit, veggie, meat and grain purees with healthy fats like olive oil, batch-tested salmon, almond butter and coconut milk yogurt that don’t have “shared lines” with any of our other allergens–all which help make up for the surprising variety of essential vitamins and minerals (like iodine) that can only be found in cow’s milk. Every day includes vitamin D and DHA drops, fortified baby oatmeal for breakfast, a potassium-rich banana, and calcium-enriched animal crackers (yep, the century-old classic) which we try, unsuccessfully, to keep off the floor. But we’re very proud that thanks to all the hard work, we get to squeeze a chubby toddler belly and thunder thighs... The full story is posted at BestfortheMoment.com. #linkinbio #foodallergies #foodallergymom #foodallergyawareness #peanutallergy #milkallergy #eggallergy

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