Ashley
Mama to Maddox, Walker and Finn plus three unruly dogs: Nick Carraway, Ladybird, and Charlotte. Owner of Nest, a custom painting and furniture restoration business run out of my SoKno home. I've written for Knox Moms since 2014, and have also written for The Dollywood Company, Her View From Home, and Today.com. I'm a recovering type-a personality, overcaffinated, sleep with too many pillows, am a better person near water, and love a good British period drama or anything about gruesome true crime. I'm going to die trying to pet something I shouldn't or lifting furniture I have no business lifting, and am a firm believer in convenience meals. Probably a top contender for the title of World's Okayest Mom.
My Boys Cannot Be Anything They Want to Be
I am obsessed with this time of year. Obsessed. If there is a word bigger and more expressive than obsessed to describe the nine trees in my house, the 10 foot tall Santa on...
A Divorced Kid’s Guide to Surviving the Holidays
You know the song, "Over the River and Through the Woods to Grandmother's House We Go?" Isn't it sweet? The family, in the sleigh, going to the matriarch of said family's home? It makes you...
A Tale of Two Kinder-GARNERS, Part Two: Halloween 2015 vs Halloween 1991.
We all went to kindergarten together in my post a few months ago, so let's trick or treat together too, k? I have bought into the madness just like the rest of you mommies. I've...
Let’s Do the Time Warp Again: How the TimeHop App Turned Me Into An...
About 6 months ago I decided to download the Timehop app to my iPhone. It seemed harmless. It seemed fine. Some of my virtual friends seemed to only exist in a sea of flashbacks...
An Open Letter to Nick Jr.
Dear Nick Jr., I want to start my correspondence by telling you this: had it not been for some of the very shows I am writing you about, I wouldn't have been able to take...
My Fiancé Didn’t Give Me Butterflies
Yes. You read that right. The man I currently agreed to do all of eternity with didn't give me butterflies... Well, until he did. Dating is hard. Dating with kids is even harder. (I wrote...
Beach, Please: A Neurotic Mother’s Guide to Stress Free Vacation Planning
Summer has nearly come and gone. Most of us have taken a beach vacation or two, starting in late May and ending a few weeks ago as our kiddos embarked on the back to...