Join us for our conversation on adult friendships with one of our own Kansas City Mom Collective contributors, Jiao Jiao Shen. Jiao Jiao is...
One of the best, unexpected things I’ve enjoyed as an adult is watching friends become parents.
Some have teenagers and some have two-month-old babies, and...
As my family and I embark on our move from Kansas City, Missouri to the Denver, Colorado area, I am having to say goodbye...
Most folks would agree that February, although the shortest month of the year, can be counted on as the best time to experience a...
It’s time to celebrate! Nope, not the Chiefs, not a significant other, not even the birth of some old presidents. It’s time to go...
As a non-sports person married to a sports fan, it has sometimes been hard for me to relate to my husband’s affinity for sports....
How did I get here? I am not quite sure I belong.
I have spent a majority of my life asking myself this very question,...
We stood in the hazy blue glow of the Kansas City Aquarium on an unseasonably warm February day. Our daughters swirled around our feet,...
I pride myself on being relatively self-sufficient. I lived on my own for a long time until I got married, so I learned how...
Sometimes walking in the art lined halls of a children’s school brings back the nostalgia of our own youth. Memories of friendships, young love,...
Mudita is one of my very favorite words. A Sanskrit word with no English counterpart, mudita translates to sympathetic joy; the pleasure that comes...
I was at the nail salon indulging in a little pedicure love with my almost four year old daughter last weekend. All was going...
I became a mother on the exact same day as one of my closest friends!
Exact. Same. Friggin. Day.
It’s been three and a...
We’re approaching Mothers Day, and in my almost four years of being a mother, my absolute must have no matter the age or stage...
Being a mother is the most wonderful, exhausting, underappreciated job. You are chef, maid, and doctor all rolled into one. Mom's are expected to...


























