The Idea

My name is Samantha and I am a 32 year-old wife, PA and mom to two boys. Anthony who is 3 years old and Christopher, 8 months.

Before having Anthony, I worked as a Physician Assistant. I graduated from Nova Southeastern in 2015 and took my first job in Internal Medicine. Every day was different–the hours were long, the patients were exhausting, but I love medicine. Actually, I love people and, more than anything, I truly enjoy helping people. The most fulfilling part of Outpatient Internal Medicine was getting to build a relationship with my patients. I was able to see first-hand that what I was doing was truly changing their lives.

I knew that I wanted to get pregnant, and, unfortunately, that office environment wasn’t the ideal one for me. I was the only PA in the practice and the MD wasn’t full-time. The stress of being the sole provider there would have been too much for me to have a healthy pregnancy. I made the decision to leave and went into Dermatology before I got pregnant and remained there until a month before Anthony was born.

Now, I have been home with Anthony for a year. Even though being able to spend this time with him has been absolutely incredible, I am itching to get back into medicine. “Mom guilt” has swayed me away from going back this entire time. I felt like I needed to be here for every “new” milestone. I felt like I would be less of a mom if I missed something. I didn’t realize how much guilt came along with becoming a mom. This guilt was something that I never heard other moms talk about and it made me feel like I was alone. It wasn’t until I started to openly talk to other moms about it that I realized it was more common than I thought. 

Why did I want to start this blog? 

When I started my blog, it was nothing I could have ever imagined. My purpose for creating this space started out as a mere reassurance to ALL moms—to create an inclusive safe outlet where they felt heard, understood, and could let out a laugh or two. The perfect picture of what “motherhood” was supposed to be, I quickly realized is the beauty in the chaos. It is not perfect, no mold fits every household and things do in fact get messy–really messy. When scrolling through social media, it is easy to make comparisons to others highlight reels, especially as a mother. If I can make one person feel less alone, then I have already accomplished what I wanted to make of this.

Not only do I hope to make new moms, veteran moms, moms-to-be and even dog moms laugh a little, but I also hope to inform them of helpful products that I’ve discovered along the way, to save time and share the best products out there. I learned that we are all just looking to lean on each other a little and thrive in our journey of motherhood.