Each of the moms featured in the Wednesday Evening series talks about her favorite photo and what the reader response to her family’s post meant to her— both the positive and the negative.
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11/04/15
Wednesday Evening with Laura
Laura has recently decided to go back to school for her MBA and Wednesday evening is the night she has class. She describes rushing out the door as soon as her husband Tom comes home from work like “passing the baton in a relay race.”
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11/02/15
Dr. B on Going from One to Two
Dr. B (aka my sister) talks about being on the go with two kids instead of one (much harder to get out the door, fyi), plus I’m giving away a Lily Jade diaper bag.
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10/28/15
Wednesday Evening with Shira
Shira and Ariel live outside of Chicago with three kids. Shira is a corporate attorney and Ariel stays home with the kids. Shira wanted to participate in Wednesday Evenings to show “what’s possible when you put some faith in dads.”
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10/27/15
Argument of the Week: Discipline
Is one parent strict while the other one coddles? Does one parent undermine while the other tries to set the rules? How do you discipline your kids when you don’t present a united front?
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10/21/15
Wednesday Evening with Allison
Allison and Otis recently moved back to Chicago with their 2yo son after Otis ended his career in the NFL. Allison takes on a lot of the evening responsibilities while her husband studies hard for the Series 7 and the start of his second career.
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10/07/15
Wednesday Evening with Kirsten
Kirsten and Alan are raising three kids (including a 5 month old baby) in suburban Massachusetts. Kirsten describes themselves as just “an average family” but I think their commitment to teamwork is pretty incredible.
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09/30/15
Wednesday Evening with Natasha
Natasha and Matty are two full-time working parents from Boston who must compress quality family time into an hour and a half. Natasha says her evenings are hectic and tiring but the photos show lots of love and laughter.
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Melissa and Jo live in Cambridge, Massachusetts with their two kids—3-year-old Harper and 13-month-old Elijah. They are the first two-mom family I am featuring in this series and I am very excited they volunteered to share their evening.
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09/09/15
Wednesday Evening with Rachel
Rachel and Jorge have been married for 14 years and have four kids (+1 dog) in Birmingham, Alabama. Their photos will definitely make you see the beauty in having a large family.
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At some point, it’s time to say goodbye to the baby phase. But never fear, because there’s lots of great stuff coming! In fact, your life as a Big Kid Parent is about to improve tremendously.
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09/02/15
Wednesday Evening with Elizabeth
Elizabeth and her husband Tom are both English professors and big city transplants adjusting to small town life with two boys in Montgomery, Alabama.
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08/26/15
Wednesday Evening with Jessica
Jessica is a recently divorced single mom of three boys in Birmingham, Alabama. She did the series because she wanted to have something special for her and her boys to remember this time in their lives in a positive way.
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08/17/15
Overcoming Parental Self-Doubt
Every time my kids have a meltdown in public, half my energy is spent trying to calm my children while the other half is spent wondering what the other people witnessing my parenting fail must think of me.
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08/12/15
Wednesday Evening with Amy
Amy is a 25 year-old single mom who moved back in with her mother Sharon and her stepdad Mike shortly before her 2yo son Maverick was born, with the goal of paying off debt and saving money to buy a home.
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