Jan 18, 2023 | Adults, By Stage, Crafts & Hobbies, Elementary Age, Family Time, For the Home, From the Heart, Moms & Dads, Raising Children, Teens & Tweens
By TMoM Team Member Ellen Bryant Lloyd New Year’s resolutions have never worked for me. I gave up the practice of making them years ago after letting my resolve go just a few weeks, or even days, into the new year. Maybe it was that my list was too long or too...
Jan 16, 2023 | Adults, Elementary Age, Family Time, From the Heart, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas, Teens & Tweens, Toddlers & Preschool
By TMoM Team Member Sydney D. Richardson, Ph.D. Ahh Winter. A time to hibernate, reflect on the past holiday season, and snuggle with a good book or movie under some warm blankets, preferably by a fire. Yeah right! If children surround you, hibernation will not...
Jan 5, 2023 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Tracy Huneycutt “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” George Eliot I turned 40 this past year. It was a welcome decade to enter. My 20s were spent learning about myself and creating new experiences with friends. I spent the entire...
Jan 2, 2023 | From the Heart, Just for Dads, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family
By TMoM Team Member Dennette Bailey In 2022, I purposed to live a life of positive impact and I reviewed with my readers my top 5 suggestions for living our most positive life in various areas such as our careers, family, and community. 2023 is all about thinking big...
Dec 25, 2022 | Family Time, From the Heart, Holidays, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family
By TMoM Team Member Sandy Harper The Triad Moms on Main Team wishes you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Thank you to all of the TMoM followers that have been here from the start and all the new ones that have joined the party over the past 12 years! 2022 has...
Dec 19, 2022 | Elementary Age, From the Heart, Humor, Just for Dads, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Raising Children, Toddlers & Preschool, Toddlers & Preschoolers
By Guest Blogger Ginny Olson, author of the blog MothersRest.com “You failed to tell me how destructive little boys can be. Especially to Christmas ornaments.” That was the message of distress dear Sarah sent me, as she shewed away her male youngins from the holiday...
Dec 13, 2022 | Burlington, By Location, Family Time, From the Heart, Greensboro, High Point, Just for Moms, Kernersville, Parenting & Family, Winston-Salem, Working Parents
By TMoM Team Member Laura Simon I had plans for our Thanksgiving weekend. For once, I had a chunk of time off work, and we were going to spend Friday at a museum in either Greensboro or Raleigh before diving into Christmas decorations on Saturday and Sunday. But when...
Dec 10, 2022 | Burlington, By Location, From the Heart, Greensboro, High Point, Holidays, Kernersville, Non Profits, Winston-Salem
By Guest Blogger Ashley Neubauer, Founder & Owner of The AG Connection For over 35 years, many girls have dreamed of owning their own American Girl Doll. The dolls’ adorable faces and heartfelt stories are something special. My daughter received her first...
Dec 9, 2022 | Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Holidays, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Carrie Sockwell, author of Our Carolina Home Christmas Eve was my favorite day growing up as a kid. I loved it so much more than Christmas day because of the anticipation and build up of Christmas coming to an overwhelming peak. The excitement of...
Dec 8, 2022 | Babies, Elementary Age, Family Time, From the Heart, Holidays, Just for Dads, Just for Moms, Toddlers & Preschool
By TMoM Team Member Anna Keller A couple of years ago, we started a new family Christmas tradition. We already had quite a few children’s Christmas books, but I wanted a total of 25 books. I researched our options, visited our local used bookstore (shout-out to...
Nov 30, 2022 | Adult Children, Adults, By Stage, Empty Nesters, From the Heart, Just for Dads, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Kristen Daukas Raising teenagers can be a challenging experience! However, what if I told you that there is a fantastic payoff at the end that does NOT include grandkids, at least not yet? While I’m still struggling a little bit with being an empty...
Nov 25, 2022 | Adult Health & Wellness, From the Heart, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Rebecca Subbiah, RDN Life can be so very hectic these days with work, caring for kids, afternoon activities and trying to juggle it all. Often taking care of ourselves both physically and mentally can go on the back burner. We are very good at taking...
Nov 24, 2022 | Adults, Burlington, By Location, Family Time, From the Heart, Greensboro, High Point, Holidays, Kernersville, Winston-Salem
By the TMoM Team The month of November typically has most thinking about why they are thankful. That is no different with the TMoM team! There is a lot to be thankful for here at TMoM. When asked, here are all the team member’s thankful responses. Katie –...
Nov 23, 2022 | Adults, From the Heart, Holidays, Just for Dads, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Single Parenting, Working Parents
By TMoM Team Member Laura Simon Ahhh…November. The month of gratitude. Cue the cute social media posts. That are full of gratitude jars, gratitude trees, and gratitude journals for kids who somehow can’t hold a pencil yet. To be clear, I’m not against any of...
Nov 22, 2022 | Adults, Burlington, By Location, Family Time, From the Heart, Greensboro, High Point, Holidays, Kernersville, Moms & Dads, Winston-Salem
By Guest Blogger Marissa Joyce, Gwyn Services Gwyn Services is celebrating it’s 50th anniversary, and we have so very much to be thankful for! This Thanksgiving week, we wanted to say a heartfelt thank you to our #PiedmontTriad Community. Plus, share some of...
Nov 19, 2022 | From the Heart, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family
By TMoM Team Member Ellen Bryant Lloyd “Moms never let go first.” I will never forget my mom speaking these words into my ear as she gave me a huge, especially meaningful hug. She had waited until I saw her in person to share a positive medical report, then gave me...
Nov 9, 2022 | Adults, Burlington, By Location, From the Heart, Greensboro, High Point, Kernersville, Winston-Salem
By Guest Blogger Renee Skudra I am thinking about literature as I often do on a Sunday afternoon. More specifically, I’m thinking about Oscar Wilde’s quote “And all at Once, Summer collapsed into fall.” It seems to me that Fall suddenly made its presence known...
Nov 2, 2022 | Adults, Burlington, By Location, By Stage, From the Heart, Greensboro, High Point, Just for Dads, Just for Moms, Kernersville, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Winston-Salem
By TMoM Team Member Dennette Bailey Fall is the perfect season to contemplate ways we can make a positive impact in our state. It is the time of the year we might consider so many issues such as politics, the health of our families, and even the beauty the season...
Oct 26, 2022 | Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Alisha Bisbee, MS, CSW, LPC Three babies and seven years of marriage later, I found myself saying no to so many things that I wanted to say yes to. I talked myself out of everything. I had a long line of excuses ready to go in my mind whenever I...
Oct 20, 2022 | Adults, Burlington, By Location, For the Home, From the Heart, Greensboro, High Point, Kernersville, Winston-Salem
By Anonymous Guest Blogger In my 40-some years, I’ve been pretty fortunate to have mostly amazing neighbors. There were some that were louder than others, and there was an unfortunate season where a renter next door turned all three floors of the house into a giant...
Oct 17, 2022 | From the Heart, Just for Moms, Local Resources, Moms & Dads, Parent & Child Groups / Support Groups
By Anonymous I struggled with working mommy angst for my oldest child’s first three years of life. The day I quit my job, I very literally jumped for joy walking through the parking lot. Never again was I going to miss a milestone in my daughter’s life. I...
Oct 9, 2022 | Family Time, From the Heart, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family
By Guest Blogger Renee Skudra I’ve always been a big believer in the concept of compassionate rescue and I’ve yet to meet a soul who at some time in their life couldn’t benefit from that. When the call of the South beckoned in the form of an acceptance to graduate...
Sep 24, 2022 | Adult Health & Wellness, From the Heart, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Madison Skakle On March 15, 2020, when the world started locking down for COVID, I started Workout Friends, a fitness community on Facebook for moms of all athletic abilities. My intention was to keep the group live for just a few weeks until the YMCA...
Sep 19, 2022 | From the Heart, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Working Parents
By Guest Blogger Suzy Fielders Being a mom brings a ton of responsibilities, when you add owning and running your own business, a.k.a being a mompreneur, on top of that then your to do list likely feels impossible to achieve. Before you get too overwhelmed take a...
Sep 18, 2022 | Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Annah Matthews We all have those days. Days where everything we do feels fruitless. Nothing stays clean for more than five minutes. The laundry pile only seems to get larger, never smaller. The to do list gets longer. The children are bored and refuse...
Sep 15, 2022 | Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By TMoM Team Member Ellen Bryant Lloyd I always look forward to the change of seasons, especially as summer fades and we welcome the arrival of fall — my favorite. It is exhilarating to watch bright hues replace the green on trees. I love having a front seat view of a...
Sep 12, 2022 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads
By TMoM Team Member Anna Keller Toward the end of August (a.k.a. solidly back to school season), I was shopping at Target with my 5-year-old daughter and was unhappy to see an abundance of Halloween items already out at the store. Halloween just so happens to be my...
Sep 10, 2022 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads
By TMoM Team Member Rachel Hoeing The 40-somethings. Some people call it “over the hill.” Some people call it “mid-life.” Know what I call this stage of life? Hard. Really freaking hard. And I’m not just talking about the fact that...
Sep 6, 2022 | Education, Elementary, From the Heart, High School & Beyond, Just for Moms, Middle School, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Elizabeth Sasso Smith It is the beginning of the school year and sign-up sheets are everywhere you turn. Join the PTA, the boosters, be a room parent, a committee chair. The potential demands on your time, on top of new schedules will be intense....
Sep 2, 2022 | Family Time, From the Heart, Just for Dads, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Christopher Laney My wife and I have three boys, all with different personalities yet similar in so many ways. When the oldest was eleven or so, I’d often walk into the family room to find him nearly upside down watching television. There were many...
