Rachel Marie Martin's Blog, page 15

I don’t have it all together and neither do you

Sometimes I feel like I’m pretending at motherhood. Yes, even after all these years. Pretending. But I don’t want anyone to see that, honestly, that stumbling around, that fumbling, so I put on the mask of motherhood. The I have it all together and pay no attention to me who really has no clue what […]

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How to Survive the Summer When You Work at Home

First, I’m super grateful to be able to work from home. I love most moments with my kids. Not the fighting over who ate all the marshmallows out of the Lucky Charms or whose turn it is on the WiiU. But, in it all, I’m grateful to be an entrepreneur and to work out of […]

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I stopped chasing normal

My calendar frustrates me. All the things on it. I keep telling myself “I just want normal” and then look at my schedule and the schedule feels a bit like hell. Every single day where I look to see if it could just be normal, if I just could work, there’s something scheduled. When I […]

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the power of simply being their mom

Original words, written by Rachel Marie Martin, author of FindingJoy.net today in an auditorium full of parents my son scanned the room looking for me. when he saw me his face lit up the room. he wasn’t looking for the perfect parent. he was looking for his mom. don’t ever forget the power of simply […]

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the good mom secret

I’ve been a mom for over twenty years. People think because of that magical double decade number that I’ve discovered the secret of being a good mom. Or a creative mom. Or the cool mom. Or a patient mom. It’s pretty much at that asking moment when I will lose my patience in Starbucks or […]

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Mother’s Day Brunch Lessons

My love/hate relationship with Mother’s Day happened when my little girls were young. At brunch. A Mother’s Day Brunch. It seems nice on the outside, but I quickly learned, in those years of toddles and babies and wild preschoolers that Mother’s Day Brunch is perhaps the most stressful keep it together look like you love […]

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hey kids, this is what to expect at the end of the school year.

You can expect this: Me. Showing up. But I probably won’t be perfect. In fact, I am going to tell you I’m not perfect. I’m sure you haven’t seen all the memes about lunches at the beginning of the year versus the end of the year, but I’m going to tell you this – it’s […]

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i was the mom running on empty

For many years I thought running on empty was just what we did as moms. I kind of thought it a noble badge of motherhood – that ability to give and give and give and push past burn-out – and to chuckle about being so exhausted and needing the triple shot of espresso from Starbucks. […]

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