I recently grabbed an Uber from my hotel back to the airport after a work trip. It was a 45-minute drive, and I entered the vehicle with my headphones at the ready. I cannot bring myself to click the setting in the Uber app that allows you to say you’d “rather not talk” because…well…I’m deeply […]
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September 14, 2025 1 Comment
The doors opened and the processional music began. I turned to look, but for a quick second, I was mentally transported to a time 22 years in the past. I was remembering when my oldest daughter was learning to walk. Like most parents in those early days, one of us would help her up and get […]
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I'm a mom to three girls (ages 24,22,14) and an Optometrist who also happens to be married to an Optometrist. Despite this fact, my daughter’s school had to make three requests for my child to get an eye exam. My last pregnancy occurred as I was closing in on 40 years old and it inspired to me to launch this blog, chronicling life as a working mom who found herself buying diapers and bifocals simultaneously. When I'm not busy carpooling or doing eye exams I can usually be found on a dock soaking up the water and sun at my Show-Me-State home.
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