Next Sunday is Mother’s Day, so of course I had to write something about being mom. I wasn’t sure what to focus on at first but after a deep dive through the Internet, I realized that mom guilt is still one of the top things that affects mothers everywhere. Whether you are a working mom, …
Cinco de Mayo is coming up this week and what better way to celebrate than by eating delicious food? I wanted to share a few recipes of easy and healthy meals that have Mexican-inspired flavors. Two of them have been featured on the blog before but I thought it would be a good idea to …
I don’t know about you, but I am still trying to get back into the swing of things after returning from Spring Break. Not to mention that one of my children had a full TWO weeks off from school, which threw me off as far as routines go even more! As I try to get …
Last December, I wrote a blog post about travel hacks when traveling with kids within the USA and mostly short flights. We recently had the chance to travel to Argentina and enjoyed an 11 hour direct flight from JFK. I learned some new things that I wished I thought ahead of time, so I am …
This is the third and final blog post in my series of what originally started as winter soups to make in the Instant Pot. It was cold this weekend but this week will be ridiculously hot (at least in the Northeast US). I love to make white bean chicken chili in my Instant Pot but …
If you didn’t know, this week is National Doctors Day, a holiday celebrated yearly on March 30. I was not aware of this date for some time and even thought it was a new addition to the calendar. It turns out it has been around since 1933 when a physician’s wife in Georgia (Eudora Brown …
Today’s blog post is a first for Smart Mama, MD! I will be reviewing a colleague’s recently published children’s book, called Baby, MD. I read it with both my fresh 5 year old-boy and my almost 7 year-old girl and they both enjoyed it thoroughly but for different reasons. The first thing that really caught …
I couldn’t have a winter soup series without attempting to make my most favorite soup, which I eat year round and not just in the fall: butternut squash. I ended up making my own recipe and it can be made vegan if you would like. If you are able to buy the uncooked butternut squash …
Most of you probably know that March is Women’s History Month and that March 8 is International Women’s Day. I try to write something relevant or in honor of this month during one of my March blog posts but this year I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. At first I thought I could …
Now that Winter has returned to the Northeast, I have decided to try making a bunch of new soups with the Instant Pot. I had a bag of split peas left from the last time I made soup with a Dutch Oven and this was so much easier! I will be featuring a new soup …