Rachel Harris Ledet
A New Orleans native and entrepreneur, Rachel is a mom of four with an active schedule. Rachel maintains a daily balance of running her own marketing firm, 30|90 Marketing, managing her kids’ schedules, and maintaining extracurriculars including coaching dance, volunteering, and occasionally teaching courses. Rachel lives in Mandeville with her best friend and husband Lenny, daughters Addison and Amelia, stepson Luke, and son Tucker. With a family of six and a million balls in the air, Rachel keeps things light by continuously learning, spending time with amazing friends, blogging, finding any route to a concert or outdoor festival, and planning her next getaway with her husband. A sense of humor can get you through almost anything, so she tends to surround herself with fabulous and very funny people.
Being a Purple Person
I'm doing my very best to teach my kids to be "purple people!" I first heard about this concept while listening to Alec Baldwin's podcast on a treadmill journey a few weeks ago. Kristin...
8 Tips to Boost Your Productivity As a Working Mom
The start of a fresh new year is usually a great trigger to stop, take a step back, and do a fair amount of self-reflection. This year, as 2021 rounded the corner, I decided...
Journaling as a Tool
As a high school student, I journaled often. Somewhere there's a box with tons of spiral-bound notebooks filled with a wide array of sagas including young love, breakups, friendship antics, cool parties, and dance...
New School Schedules, an Update
The first half of the school year has come to an end. We've made it through the first semester of this school year with adjusted times in Jefferson Parish, and I'd like to submit...
Mamas with Migraines: The Debilitating Journey
Migraines are a specific type of headache that cause numerous other symptoms and usually last much longer and are more painful and severe than a tension headache or sinus headache. In fact, I don't...
The First Sex Talk… Here Goes!
How to Have the First Sex Talk
It's heavy and it's daunting. We all dread it, but it's coming ready or not: the very first sex talk that you'll have with your children. As much...
Getting Back Into My Jeans
The struggle is real. Nine months of growing, growing, growing, and a million changes inside and outside of your body. Then your precious baby arrives and your post-partum path begins.
My son is nine weeks...
RSVP :: The Lost Formality
Party-planning is actually an enjoyable activity for me. I know, some moms dread an impending birthday party, but I appreciate the organization of creating a theme, designing invitations, and making a snack/menu list. I...
Depletion of Surge Capacity: One Mom’s Struggles
Depleted. That’s the best way I can describe it. My friend shared this article recently, and it hit SO close to home I nearly burst into tears: “Your ‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted — It’s...
New School Start Times: An Update and How We are Making it Work
As a follow-up to my June 1 post The New JPPSS School Times are Wrecking My World, I wanted to share how we are managing (or trying to) our new back-to-school routine that's coupled...
Labor and Delivery in the Midst of a Pandemic
Nine months: it shoots by like a bottle rocket for everyone around you and seems to drag on especially slowly when it's happening to you. Especially during a pandemic when you experience a daily...
DIY Yard Art: Summer Stepping Stones
Like many families, we spent much of our spring and early summer hours outside, landscaping and working on our home's exterior. One of my favorite family projects was creating our DIY stepping stones that...
Children of Divorce and Life Goes On
Children of Divorce
Children of divorce. Wow -that’s such a hard statement to even type, but the truth is-- it’s just a reality for my two daughters (who I had with my first husband). Never...
Stuck in the Middle: Raising a Pre-teen Daughter
More and more frequently I'm facing new challenges as a mom of a pre-pre-teen daughter. She's our oldest and has always been a beautiful, graceful, mature child. (I jokingly add in the extra "pre"...