Rachel DeAngelis
I am a Florida girl who has lived all over the map (including overseas in China!), but for the past seven years I've been putting down roots in Knoxville, Tennessee. Besides being the mother of the cutest two little boys in the world (it's true...check Guinness), I am also a cat-whisperer, a Dollywood Insider, and a high-school English teacher. You can read about all of my latest shenanigans on my blog.
Single Mom ISO Boyfriend: What I’ve Learned One Year Later
"I'm perfectly fine, I live on my own.
I made up my mind, I'm better off being alone."
Truer words were never spoken by our Queen/Mother,...
Small Changes Can Lead To Big Results
Every year when January rolls around, I feel a sense of impending doom (with a side of preemptive guilt). I know that when the...
Letters From Middle School
One of the hardest challenges of parenting is raising children who are growing up in completely different circumstances and a new generation from the...
Stop Worrying About Whether You’re Doing It Right
I can clearly remember what it felt like to wake up feeling scared in the middle of the night when I was a child....
Motherhood Looks Different Than I Thought It Would
I will never forget those challenging weeks after I became a mother for the first time. My baby was colicky and seemed to never...
Be Gentle With Those Middle School Babies
Too old to run wild on the playground anymore. Too young to drive a car. Barely out of elementary school, yet charged with hormones...
A Little Bit Of Summer Time Travel
I love a good time travel story. Whether it's a romantic story like The Time Traveler's Wife, a mind-boggling movie like The Butterfly Effect,...