It always starts out with these words: “So far I’ve been just fine…”

Do anyone else’s “getting ready” sessions go something like this?

I exhibit Gollum-like tendencies (THE RING! THE RIIIIING!!!) when it comes to the way I treat my beauty products…

When I launched The Style Project on the blog at the beginning of the year, the goal was to force myself to curate a practical and stylish closet, which I very much did not have after spending approximately six years making and taking care of babies. This is not an exaggeration. There were pools of vomit. It was messy.

34+ hours of labor and emergency C-section? I can handle that. Unmedicated until 9cm VBAC? Got that too (times two). Surviving bleeding nipples? I’m ya gal!

If you’re new to this site and don’t know my backstory, I worked for 15 years in television, 13 of them in local news, reporting and anchoring on local and national news.

Am I the only one who looks back at pictures of myself from the early 2000s and literally cringes? This could technically be due to a multitude of reasons, but in this instance it’s attributed to the one denim trend that permeated that period–low-rise jeans.

There are many experiences from my childhood I would love to revisit. To wit: Long, lazy afternoons fishing on the lake with my grandfather. The feel of smoothing down a bluegill’s fins as I unhook him and toss him back with a splash into the crystal water.

…because when you’re a mom, everything changes. And that most definitely includes spring break.

Just Wondering is a series where we talk about some pressing–and sometimes not-so-pressing–issues that help us to have a moment of much-needed reflection. Read on and weigh in!