“I made a big mess over here!” my daughter yelled gleefully from the hallway. When you’re 5, making messes is just part of the fun. I reluctantly peered around the corner to find pink kinetic sand all over her legs and the floor. Cursing my mothe…
This being a blog made of women physicians, I thought it would be prudent to write a post about Coaching. If you haven’t noticed on the socials, coaching – a fixture in the corporate leadership world for some time – is really taking off in the physicia…
It started back in May. She dropped her stainless steel sippy, and the bottom rim landed right in the middle of her big toenail. For hours, she was beside herself. All we could do was kiss and hug her and say, “Yep… it sucks to drop something on your t…
(Blubbering) “But WHY can’t I go play with Sarah??”The extent of our current outdoor adventuresHow’s everyone doing in the era of COVID and shelter-in-place? I, for one, am having a difficult time parenting my 4 year old daughter. Overall, I can’t comp…
What exactly constitutes self care? It’s different for everyone, but one thing’s for certain: it’s not just pedicures and massages. It’s much more foundational than that.Self care is…Recognizing that you must know yourself and pay attention to yourse…
The other day, my 3 year old daughter said to me, “I’m feeling fat, so I need to go take a long walk.”Is this the start of myriad negative body image thoughts I will inevitably need to address during her life? Maybe she’s just being a word sponge, but …
The other day, my 3 year old daughter said to me, “I’m feeling fat, so I need to go take a long walk.”Is this the start of myriad negative body image thoughts I will inevitably need to address during her life? Maybe she’s just being a word sponge, but …
I walk by the closed double doors and frosty windows of the ICU. You’re lying in there, intubated. It feels weird to go to work now. I can’t see you or talk to you, don’t know the drips, don’t know the plan… and it’s killing me. I, along wi…
A little snippet of a recent emailAt work, I go by Dawn Baker MD, MS. But at home, I’m sometimes known as Kristie Reynolds.I don’t mean to give away my husband’s “Wizard of Ozâ€�-type work secret here, but I will elaborate for the sake of this …
Years ago, I wrote this blog post about morning routines and how much I adored my “slow” non-workday mornings. I was in the midst of a 3-year IVF journey, but I wasn’t pregnant yet. A friend of mine, who at the time had a small baby, lau…
I had just survived one of those hyper-scheduled “days off.” Early morning short work assignment at the fertility clinic, my daughter’s first gymnastics class, squeeze in a quick workout for me (as long as she agrees to stay in the gym daycare), back…
Do you know how social security works? Are you maximizing contributions to your retirement accounts? Have you ever heard of a 529 account, or a backdoor Roth IRA?I combed the archives of this blog, and while there are a smattering of posts on money and…
Almost a year ago, I was worried about her lack of verbal expression. Now, she talks constantly. She knows so many words, it’s amazing. But I’m starting to realize that having a highly verbal child exposes your own verbal ticks.She adorably…