Mountain View
Jewel Eliese
Stop Worrying About Your Side-Hustle and Relax Already
Does it ever feel like you spend the entire day in the kitchen?. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks and desserts in between. Oh, and drinks. Then there’s the cleanup from all this work. There are days when the kitchen is your companion more than your full-time working husband.
To the Man Who Called My Three-Year-Old 'Flirtatious'
You hear the word and may think of sticking your toes in white sand, and the sound of waves crashing as you close your eyes. Or maybe you prefer snow to heat. The way the board feels as it slices through the crisp powder, adrenaline pumping.
Don't do These 3 Mistakes at a Restaurant (Unless You Want Spit in Your Food)
It was a busy night, to say the least. The kind of night that you run around, taking notes as best as you can, but you fear when you finally get home, you’ll remember how you forgot to bring table 22 their extra sauce.
To the Salesman Who Chased Me in the Mall
Hey, it happens. We just drove four hours in one car with a six-year-old and a two-year-old. Which means I spent 240 minutes entertaining my little girl -trying to- and listening to my sweet little boy whine about how he had nothing to do, a consequence of being a school kid now. Naturally, I told him about how back in the day I would look at the clouds while on a road trip; that was my entertainment.
3 Things You’ll Never Understand Unless You Speak Two Languages
“To have another language is to possess a second soul.” — Charlemagne. At first sight, people assume I am just a normal mid-western woman with two kids following behind me like little ducks. But then I speak. For the most part, my o’s are not long when I say Fargo, though the a in ‘bag’ still sounds like the e in ‘egg.’
Stop! If You Want To Keep Your Ideas, Don’t Do What I Did
The birds have stopped singing, the kids are wrapped in their fluffy blankets, and the Netflix binge has come to an end. You lay down in bed only to realize that your notebook isn’t near you, or your phone. You’ll be fine, you think to yourself.
Yep, Parenting Is Painful (Not Just With Labor!)—And That’s Okay
That fear as the countdown to the most joy and possibly the most pain you’d ever felt approached. You couldn't help but be apprehensive. With my son, I basically went drug-free. 18 hours of labor and yes, it did hurt. But with my daughter, I had an epidural. What a difference.
When You Let Your 5-year-Old Daughter Paint Your Nails, You Learn an Important Life Lesson
“One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.” -Ayelet Waldman.
To the Moms Who Find Themselves Lonely But Not Alone
Friday night would finally arrive and the options were limitless. You were young, beautiful, and time was on your side — if a little long. Your difficult choice for the evening was to choose what you were going to do for the night.
Jewel Eliese
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Published on Scary Mommy, & Thought Catalog. Amazon bestselling author. Writer Mom. A bit sassy. Loves words + baby kisses. Reach me at jeweleliese@gmail.com
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