Sure, we’re all proud of what our bodies accomplished in growing and birthing our children; that doesn’t make trying on bathing suits any easier!
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I honestly have not slept through the night in six years because of pregnancy and nursing babies. I don’t know what it’s like to have a kid use a towel more than once. I regularly lose my pants to toddlers trying to climb up my body....
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In the past 24 hours, I have had 3 friends ask me about car seats on airplanes. Do you bring them? Do you check them? Do you bring a bag? Here is what I do and after spending the last 10 years traveling with multiple toddlers (I now have a newborn and three toddlers), I have a system that I prefer after trying multiple methods of traveling with baby gear.
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Buy less, choose well. While I’m not afraid to buy a trendy little dress now and then or 32 bikinis when Target rolls out their spring racks, there are SIX pieces of clothing in my wardrobe that I consider to be timeless pieces and “investments” in my figure, confidence and style. While you can scrimp on a summer sun dress or fun pair of sandals, here are the six pieces to SPLURGE on….
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There are few things in life that I can confidently say I do well …I make my bed every day, I travel well with children and I can breastfeed like a champ. I have seven children, six biological and one adopted and I have breastfed them all.
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With a traveling resume that includes living in a city with no family and being the wife of a professional athlete with seven children, I’ve spent a good part of the last 15 years traveling with my children all over the country. Through trial and error, I’ve developed a non-fail packing system that is simple and organized. Follow these five simple tips to ease the packing pain.
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While organizing my youngest daughter’s closet today, I pulled out my first Lilly Pulitzer dress that I wore as an infant in 1977. My mother had saved this for me and I realized, after five daughters, that I will now be saving this 40-year-old dress for the third generation of Lilly wearers in our family.
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One of my favorite places in The Hamptons is Sag Harbor, where I first fell in love with this area for the Easter Bonnet Parade
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Bridgehampton is an elegant little town with several antique shops, restaurants with locally produced wines, home decor stores and boutiques sprinkled in among the galleries. It is also very rural here with many horse farms and celebrity residents like Jimmy Fallon and Billy Joel. This is also the place where BROOKE SHIELDS ASKED TO HOLD MY BABY!
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If sunshine and happiness were stylists, this would be in their summer line.
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Being the thoughtful wife that I am, I thought that for our anniversary last year, there was no better gift for my husband that a surprise vacation to Luke Bryan’s Crash My Playa in Mexico. While some may have called it a “trip to see your imaginary boyfriend on the beach,” I tend to think fondly of our vacation as some much needed couple time filled with relaxation, adventure and good music.
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Vacationing with children is work; showering alone is a vacation. With seven children, ranging from newborn to 15, finding a family vacation destination that is relaxing for me but works for toddlers, elementary aged, tweens and teens is a challenge I have failed at many times. I feel like I come home from vacation and need my own vacation to want to be around my family again. There is however once place that I return to year after year….Hawk’s Cay in the Florida Keys.
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While I’ll be the first to admit that all rompers are not created equal, when you find one that works for your body style, it can be a real game changer in your wardrobe.
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I have often said that I prefer childbirth to airline travel with my children. When you are flying with children, most people avoid you, some people hate you, sometimes you hate your kids and you rarely get to eat if you are trying to manage little mouths on the run. When you’re in labor, people want you to relax, they bring you food and everyone is willing to help a crying baby.
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Welcome to Mommy Mayhem! As a parenting survivalist and style voyager, my life with seven children is anything but ordinary or conventional. What once began as witty social media posts about my then life as a single mother ten years ago, has now blossomed to include my life as the wife of a professional baseball player, mother of seven and my attempt at keeping it all together with humor and style.
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