Each day, TriangleMom2Mom.com will feature the musings of a select group of moms from across the Triangle.

Here's our line-up:

MONDAY

Jennifer Gregory left Florida almost 11 years ago to escape the heat and enjoys living in a place where the seasons change. She lives in Youngsville, N.C., which she usually refers to as north of Wake Forest, and has been married to her husband for almost 10 years. As the mom of two kids and three dogs, her house is filled with lots of joyful noise and barking. Her daughter (7) is convinced that she will be a princess when she grows up and her son (5) has aspirations of being the next Dale Jr. After years of writing software documentation for various companies, she "retired" when her daughter was born to become a stay at home mom. Now that her kids are in school, she has finally figured out what she wants to be when she grows up. She spends her mornings as a freelance writer and her afternoons hanging out with her kids. The only things she misses about living in Florida are her friends and family, Publix fried chicken and going to Florida Gator football games.

TUESDAY

Pamela DeLoatch is a married mom of four busy children (aged 10,12,14 and 15), freelance business writer, slacker housewife, dedicated tennis player, avid reader and fairly obsessed American Idol fan. Having yet to invent a way to Xerox herself, she is typically running 5-10 minutes behind in her life, trying to figure out how to multitask in her minivan. Born in Washington, D.C., she discovered her love for writing and majored in journalism at American University. Unfortunately, however, having a much thinner skin than either Woodward or Bernstein, she put journalism aside and spent many years pursuing other career endeavors she thought made more sense. She first came to North Carolina for graduate school at Duke University and thought: nice place to visit, but way too quiet to live there. After living in Illinois for 13 long winters, she understandably developed a true appreciation for all things Carolina. After threatening, coercing and bribing her family to move back to the East Coast, she is happily settled in Cary, where she has rediscovered her passion for writing. Now back where she belongs, she is building a writing career while legitimately incorporating an occasional “y’all” in her vocabulary.

WEDNESDAY

Diane Neer tries to be the voice of Moms with teens. My daughter Haley is 15. She's at that age where she is convinced that I know nothing. I'm thinking I'll seem a lot smarter when she's 22. We bond over Broadway shows. My son Rory is 13. He started reading the sports page when he was 5 and his passion for anything sports-related has grown ever since. This year he beat out 9 guys in their 40s to win his Fantasy Football League. Watch for him on ESPN in a few years.

My husband Hurley works from home, but travels quite a bit. When he's gone, I usually take a break from making dinner and cleaning the house. Oh, I don't do those things regularly when he's here either! Our parenting philosophy is "choose your battles." The only problem is that we often choose different battles. It keeps it interesting!!! 

THURSDAY

Illyse Lane is currently a stay-at-home mom. She resides in Raleigh with her husband and two sons, ages 7 and 9. Originally from New York, Illyse fled the cold to attend Florida State University. After a brief return to life in the city, she relocated to Raleigh to work for GE Capital and has never looked back. Illyse is sure that as long as all the boys in her home continue to speak, she will have plenty of material to write about.

FRIDAY

Leigh Sparacino
grew up in Durham, attended college in North Carolina, left the area for an island off the coast of Georgia, the high mountains of Colorado, and her favorite mountains in western North Carolina, before returning to the Triangle eight years ago. She lives near Carrboro with her 5-year-old daughter Flipper and two dogs. She is single in marital status only, surrounded by friends, family, and her daughter's very involved and loving father. She works part-time and tries to be as involved as possible in her daughter's school, The Emerson Waldorf School, where Flipper is a kindergartner. She likes wood, glass and other natural materials for toys, loves the principles of Waldorf education and hates plastic. She might be the only person in the world, with no TV and who hasn't been to a movie in 15 years, but races to the mailbox every Saturday for the most recent issue of People magazine. In other words, a contradiction. Or just human.

SATURDAY - SUNDAY

Mandy Hamm grew up in a small town in northern Ohio, the kind of place where teachers accidentally called her by her sister’s name and even occasionally, her mother’s.  Even though she has grown comfortable in Cary, ties to her hometown, where her father is currently Mayor, are still strong. Mandy moved to the Triangle when she got married in July of 1999 as her husband, D, had a job here.  She soon found work in a field she never knew existed, but gave up a paycheck when her first child was born in May of 2003.  Y got a little sister, J, in February 2006.  Exactly one day after J turned three, the household was blessed with twins, baby boy G and baby girl M.