As I’m writing this, I am one month into my second transition to staying home with our kids. Yep, you did read that correctly. We’ve decided on two separate occasions that staying home makes sense for our family. Despite the same conclusion, me staying home, our circumstances have been wildly different both times.

However, the things we’ve considered both times have remained the same. We all know finances play an important role in this conversation, as they should. I’m skipping finances for this conversation though, because while it’s important it should not be the only consideration…

As I write this I am transitioning again from working outside the home to stay-at-home mom. Yep, you read that correctly, this is my second time doing this transition.

Let’s start with a bit of a backstory so you know I’m not just blowing smoke when I say that these 3 things really help when you are transitioning to stay-at-home mom life.

Essentially this is a ‘‘what I wish I’d done the first time’’ list that I am doing this time to make it easier…

To put it simply a MomME™ is the foundation for how I live life as a mom: I’m a mom and I’m me.

Know I didn’t always have a name for this concept of being me in motherhood. In fact the MomME™ term wasn’t created until 2023 when I was writing my book with the same title…