Sarah Loicano
My Kids ARE Trick-Or-Treating This Year
2020: between a global pandemic and resulting economic devastation, homeschool/virtual school, trying to work from home, social upheaval, violence and protests, and election year with all its own sensitivities and frustrations, the past eight...
Friday Favorites – Sarah’s Weekly Treats for Busy Moms
Welcome to our newest series. In "Friday Favorites," our team will share a handful of favorite items. These can range from clothes to beauty products to recipes to books and anything in between.
I have...
Skip the Resolutions: Live Your Best Life with a Bucket List
There’s something so hopeful and expectant about the New Year. Sometimes you have big, exciting plans for the next year; other times it’s just a year you’re eager to put behind you. That's right...
New Orleans Living … What’s Not to Love?
So you received orders to New Orleans. Show of hands, who knew there were military bases in New Orleans? OK, maybe it’s common knowledge for the Navy or Marines, but it was definitely news...
Why I Love The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel … But Also, Who Is Watching the...
As a working mom of three kids under five, I don’t get a lot of opportunities to watch television, but when I do, I usually find myself hiding in the laundry room, folding a...
You Gotta Fight. For Your Right. To Breastfeed.
“You need to cover up, or I’ll have to call security.”
Stunned, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. What heinous act was I committing?
There I sat, nursing my 2-week-old baby while watching my 2-...
Unruffled: A Simple Girl Living In A Ruffled World
In college, if you had asked me where I thought I would want to live, I can guarantee the South wouldn’t have been one of my answers. However, military life has given me the ability...
Parenting in a Villageless Society
Finding your way when a village doesn't exist
Perhaps it's one of those nostalgic, rose-colored glasses perspectives, but it often feels like the days when parents had an established village was a lot less overwhelming than...
Not Just One of the Guys
Women are veterans, too
While on the phone recently with USAA Mortgage services, I had a conversation that I laughed off, but deep down, it stung.
My husband and I were buying a house and using...
Prenatal Ultrasound: Friend or Foe?
“It could be nothing ... or it could be ... something.”
With those words so casually mentioned by my doctor after a recent regularly scheduled prenatal ultrasound, I was tossed headfirst into a place of...
A Look Back at My Journey Through Infertility: What I Wish I Knew
Looking at me now, toting a 20-month-old toddler on my back, holding hands with my 4-year-old, and sporting a six pack month pregnant belly, I seem to be the very picture of fertility.
What that picture...
This Is Your Brain on Kids and Other Pregnancy Side Effects
As our family embarks on our third go around with parenthood (surprise!! THIS one really is the last!), I’m happily discovering that this pregnancy is going well. Please don’t hate me, but I seem...