Q&A With “The Happiest Mom” Author Meagan Francis. Win Her New Book Here!
I first “met” writer and mom Meagan Francis on an online forum for writers. She was awaiting the overdue delivery of her fourth son. Since then, we’ve become friends on- and off-board, and have met in person at more than one writer’s conference (which tend to include margaritas at some point in the weekend, which I bring up only to prove that, yes, she is a happy mom!). In that time, she’s produced a handful of books (not to mention a fifth child, a daughter) and many hundreds of magazine articles and blog posts on her very popular, very accessible …Keep Reading
Parenting isn’t for Sissies. Or for Sisyphus.
I’m going to be honest here: I haven’t been having the greatest time lately, as a parent. As a friend of mine has said more than once (and she may have borrowed it from someone else): Parenting isn’t for sissies. My boys are going through tough stages. I don’t know what it is, exactly, but I have heard that first grade and third grade (and the odd grades in general) are harder to get through. But they seem stressed out about school even though they’re both doing well. The little one’s mood is on its usual hair-trigger: the same things …Keep Reading
