Holidays, Food, Motherhood

Mother’s Day Brunch in Kansas City [Pinstripes Sunday Brunch Review]

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Mother's Day Brunch Kansas City - A review of Pinstripes Sunday Brunch, one of the best Mother's Day brunch spots in the Kansas City area! Pinstripes in Overland Park, KS has brunch, bowling, and bocce all under one roof! A surefire way to make Mother's Day special for the Kansas City mom in your life.

Mother’s Day is almost here! I’ll save you the Google–it’s Sunday, May 13, 2018. One of my favorite parts of Mother’s Day is brunch [another is doing no diaper changes, a rule I instituted on my very first Mother’s Day]. I can’t help with the diaper changes, but today, I’m sharing one of the best spots for Mother’s Day brunch in Kansas City!

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Motherhood, Babies, Home, Toddlers

I’m Not a Super Mom and I Don’t Care

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I'm Not a Super Mom... and I Don't Care: I'm not a Pinterest mom, as much as I try to be. I feel like I come up short as a mom, wife, and everything else, basically all the time. But at the end of the day, my kids are loved and that's all that matters. A mom's reflections on why it's OK to not be a super mom.

A few days/weeks/months ago [who knows, because I’m terrible at keeping track of time], I published a post called Day in the Life of a Stay-at-Home Mom of 2. Since then, it’s been my most-viewed post. It’s made the rounds on social media, and I’ve received feedback–publicly and privately–basically saying that I don’t measure up as a mom. That I don’t clean enough. I don’t cook enough. I don’t whatever enough. Well, I’m not a super mom… and I don’t care.

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