Parenting Perspectives

The call  I was pulling into my driveway one afternoon, and a number that I didn't recognized called. I ignored it because I was trying to get the youngest inside for his nap. The phone rang again. Then my school...

Happy December, Birmingham! Now cue the millions of mass holiday marketing emails from every single retailer that you have shopped at in your entire life! The holidays are about much more than presents and over-spending, but there is so...

What is "Team Green," anyways? Team Green means that you forgo finding out the gender of a baby prior to delivery. With our first, we did a gender reveal party and it was amazing. Our family and friends were so...

We have had a blast working with Dr. Jeff Flannery and his team at Oak Mountain Pediatric Dentistry for three years now, and we are excited to help you get to know them better! Enjoy these quick bios on...

I turned around from the driver’s seat and looked at three flushed sweet smiling faces in the back of my car. We had just raced into the school to grab all our books to start teaching from home. COVID-19...

The smell of incense sticks lingering in my house. My mom drawing a beautiful rangoli -- "floor art" -- at the entrance of our house, draped in her new sari gifted by my dad. Lantern and oil lamps adorning...

When you miss the first four years of your child's life, you might look at things a bit differently . . . You might order four little birthday cakes, light a bunch of extra candles, and sing for every single...

In 2016, we welcomed our first child, a Thai daughter, into our hearts and lives. Becoming a transracial, cross-cultural, adoptive family made my role as a (new) mother quite complex. My world became more beautiful, and my heart more...

Birmingham Moms Collective is excited to welcome Ascension St. Vincent's Hospital as one of the sponsors of our upcoming Holiday Drive-In event!  Where Babies Come From Ascension St. Vincent's--known as the place "where babies come from" (myself included!)--has a longstanding tradition...

By vocation, I oversee and am a working member of a local domestic adoption program. One of my roles is to educate prospective adoptive parents on the varying needs of adopted children and prepare them for parenting such a...