Ma Maven | The Mom Without A Manual

Grief, sadness, heartbreak, disappointment, in this day in age there has been a desire to avoid facing trials of any kind like it’s the plague. Couple that with having to teach my children how to be emotionally sound and there lies a petri dish of a mess. What still amazes…

It’s a Monday morning and I just dropped my oldest son off at school. After the morning drop, I would usually run right home to be with my babies and husband, lately, I find myself not being in much of a hurry. I woke up this morning, at 2 am…

Being a mom can be very alienating at times. I don’t think that people realize that. Then throw in the stay-at-home mom title and the feelings of loneliness are compounded. I’ve observed moms who are able to combat these feelings by having a peer group or community where there are…

Everybody at some point in their lives wants to be made new again. With the closing of one year and waking up in the next makes you reevaluate what you have been mulling over for the last 365 days. “Another year has passed me by and I didn’t do this,…

With the holiday season fast approaching I thought it would be a perfect time to talk about co-parenting. This might be a hot-button issue for a lot of parents in a co-parenting situation like myself, I oftentimes wonder if others felt the way that I did when it came to…

Finding love as a single mom is possible. When you’re a single mom your heart longs to find that one person in the world who will love and accept you and all that comes along with being in a relationship with you. That means your child or children. You may…

My job doesn’t pay too well, or at all. Currently, I am still on the clock and I’ve been working since 3:00 a.m. I’ve had a lot of late nights and early mornings before but nothing like this. It seems like it’s been an ongoing trend where I wake up…

Somebody tell me when I can sleep again. Like really be able to put my head down and drift into the deep abyss of dreamland? I’m somewhat beating myself up because I stayed awake well after the babies went to sleep and watched a 2-hour movie on Netflix. I even…

Today I chose to be honest with myself and it has lifted so much weight off my shoulders. I am not passionate about anything right now and that is ok. Earlier I was sharing with a good girlfriend of mine the many business ideas I have brewing. During this conversation,…

This is where we are in our day, lunch in bed. Sometimes I struggle with the optics of it all. Currently, my home is a complete mess with stuff everywhere. Dishes in the sink, building blocks, and books scattered across the floor. I did manage to get the bathroom cleaned…