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Disclosure: This post has been sponsored by Katie O’Leary, licensed REALTOR®. How to Sell Your House and Keep Your Sanity (with Kids) Everyone tells you that spring is a great time to sell your house. After a long, cold winter and...

Why I Buy Coffee Daily

Yes, it’s true. I literally buy Starbucks Coffee every day. On any given weekday, you can find my swagger wagon pulling into my local Starbucks between 7:50 & 8am daily. I look like a hot mess in my usual black...
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This Shouldn’t Be Our Fear

As mothers, we have a lot to fear when it comes to our children's safety. Electrical outlets, grapes, busy intersections, peanuts, the flu, I could go on and on. Some fears are more reasonable than others, and some fears...
To My Godsons: You know my job, as law enforcement, is to stop bad guys every day, to protect innocent people, and run toward the danger. I take my job seriously and know that my life could be taken at...
Exasperation I spend the whole day running. From 5am-10pm, I'm on the move. Shuffling kids off to school, working 9 hours and then coming home to run some more. The evenings are the hardest. I run room to room picking up toys and...
To My School Aged Child :: I want to keep you safe. I have been actively working on keeping you safe since the moment I found out you were growing inside me. I stopped eating my favorite ahi tuna...
Disclosure :: Beyond the Equator sponsored this post, but any time a local New Orleans company lets us know that they have a product we think local moms should know about then we are all ears. Over five of us...
This is my story of my fifteen year struggle with an addiction. It may not be your typical addiction, but it was my struggle. It still is my struggle. Everyone has a story, and it may not be the same shape...
“Why do you get so angry?” My husband gently asks me sometimes. He doesn’t understand, and frankly I don’t fully understand either. Sometimes I think things are sexist when the “guy doesn’t mean anything by it.” Sometimes I feel violated...
Disclosure :: This post is sponsored by the Sun Belt Conference.  Family Fun at the Sun Belt Basketball Tournament In the world of college sports, basketball dominates the month of March. The flurry of games, both men’s and women’s, has led...
February is Black History Month. I’ve never thought much about it because as my friend’s recent Instagram post put it “I’m Black Every Month.” Growing up, my parents taught us about successful black men and women on a daily...

Riding Down the Avenue

The year was 1992, and I was 10 years old and about to ride in my first parade as a tomato. I rode with my grandma on Mardi Gras Day in one of the very loud truck parades that...
As I walk into work tomorrow clad in my purple, green, and gold 504 sweatshirt and my kids in their Mardi Gras striped polos, Randazzo’s kingcakes for their classes in hand, everyone will just stare blankly. “Happy Mardi Gras!!!”...
Prepping for the Magic: A Disney World Packing List It is almost time for the annual migration of New Orleanians to Orlando. Yes, I am talking about the large number of locals who will head to Disney World for the...