Jessica Walter

Jessica Walter
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I am a working mom who left the education world after 7 years to pursue my business career. I work as a product developer at a local insurance company and love it. My husband and sons are my world. We struggled for 3 years with fertility prior to adopting our first son. Later, we really wanted him to have a sibling so pursued IVF using donor embryos (because we firmly believe love makes a family) and were then blessed with our second son. When I’m not working or playing the wife/mom role, I love to run, read, bake, write, and tinker with photography. We all have a story to share and I hope some of my experiences will help others.

Prioritizing Family Time

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It's 9:30 pm, and you finally have a minute to sit on the couch and reflect on the day's chaos. Everything you did displays like a fast-forward reel of a million events. The morning...

Happy Star Wars Day! The Force is Strong with this Mama

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Like many of you, I married a man who idolizes all things Star Wars. It wasn’t something I knew about him right away. I mean, he couldn’t scare me that soon. There was a...

An Open Letter to the Mama in Waiting

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Dear Mama in Waiting, Yes, I am calling you a Mama, and you know what? You deserve that, you deserve to have that title- that name. There are so many things I want to say...

Pregnancy After Loss: How I’m Keeping Anxiety at Bay

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Three pregnancy losses does something to your psyche that may not reveal itself until a seemingly successful pregnancy occurs after. After the implantation of our little one in March, I was convinced I would...

The Infertility Club: One Mom’s Story of Loss, IVF, and Adoption

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As humans, most of us want so desperately to belong to something bigger than ourselves. Our need to belong is why we root for specific teams, even though we never attended the college. Some...

How to be a Good Friend During a Divorce

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My husband and I got married in our early 30’s but had been dating for 10 years. This means we went to a lot of weddings before ours. I even remember thinking we would...

How Do You Know if You Are Done Having Kids

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I remember cracking up at my last OB appointment before the birth of my second son. The doctor was asking me if I thought about what kind of birth control I was going to...

Easy Baking Recipes for the Busy Mom

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After our second miscarriage, I lived some of the darkest days of my life. The woman who always found the silver lining was just trying to make it another day. After a month of...

Introducing Jessica Walter…a Lansing Mom

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Hello, I’m Jessica, Contributing Writer for Lansing Mom! I was born and raised in Lansing, and, minus the two-ish-year stint I moved to Novi and then Fowlerville, have lived here my whole life. I attended...

Food Trucks In + Around Lansing

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I'll never forget my work bestie asking me if I wanted to join her for lunch. We do this Thursday thing where we eat at a new place each time we venture out. On...