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

Here's our line-up:

MONDAY

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.

Bonnie Rochman lives in Raleigh and has written for The News & Observer since 1998. She has covered political unrest in the Middle East and chronicled the experiences of entrepreneurs in Vietnam, but that was long before her new bosses -- there are three of them, one more demanding than the next -- presenting her with her most challenging assignment to date: juggling the needs and perceived wants of boy/girl preschoolers and their baby sister.

TUESDAY

Beth McNichol is a freelance writer, former magazine editor and a past media relations director for UNC athletics. She wrote high-brow pieces about air-guitar competitions and the true color of Carolina blue before entering the super-chic life of stay-at-home mom to two girls: MJ, 3; and Little L, 7 months. Beth is married to a nice boy from Toronto, and they are teaching their children how to say “sorry” in both English and Canadian. She is a graduate of UNC and Northwestern and is a native of West Virginia, the first state to observe Mother’s Day. She now resides on the Chapel Hill side of Durham. If you ask her for juice one more time she will scream.

WEDNESDAY

Amy Williamson lives in Holly Springs with her two daughters, a four-year old aspiring High School Musical character and a two-year old who believes every day should start at 5 a.m. Amy and her husband met while attending Virginia Tech and relocated here two years ago from Virginia to escape the traffic and intermittent snow. Amy works in finance and her husband is a real estate agent. Amy enjoys playing bassoon for the Holly Springs Community Band and can often be found in her garage practicing and scaring off the neighborhood cats.

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

Gigi Harrell is a mom of two daughters, ages 4 and 1½. Gigi’s path to a career in writing took the scenic route. She graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in Industrial Engineering and a husband-to-be. After a few years of work and lots of play in California, they returned to their roots in the South. They landed in North Carolina where she graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with an MBA. She worked in marketing for a large multinational company, but career priorities changed with the arrival of her girls. She stepped off the corporate track to start her own business. She now works full-time as a mom and part-time running her business and writing freelance. Gigi lives in Cary with her husband and two daughters balancing the havoc and harmony of everyday life.

SATURDAY

Diane Neer did the whole "stay-at-home Mom" thing the smart way ... worked when they were small and would have required lots of effort on her part and "retired" when they were in school so she didn't really have to "stay-at-home" and didn't have to devote a ton of time to the "Mom" stuff. This allowed her to devote her life to reading, blogging, playing golf and being Special Personal Assistant to her husband, Hurley, a role that requires her to be available 24/7 to provide information like the expiration date on the credit card, his driver's license number and their home address (the family has moved a lot, so he doesn't consider this information worthy of committing to long-term memory). Her daughter Haley, 15, is "majoring" in Drama in high school ... seriously, she is TAKING Drama ... which in Diane's opinion is redundant. She firmly believes that her parents were put on Earth to drive her places and is indignant when they actually have (horror of horrors) their own plans that preclude them from doing so! Her son, Rory, 12, has outgrown his maternal devotion, thinks Dad walks on water and spends his days crossing his fingers that Diane won't do something totally embarrassing like breathe or do Sudoku at his baseball practice.

SUNDAY

Natalie Gott of Carrboro is a stay-at-home mom to castle- and mean sea creature-loving Guillermo, 4, and puzzle- and big brother-adoring Maya, 1 1/2. Natalie was a wire service reporter for nine years, but stopped working after Maya was born in 2006. Most mornings you can now find her at the playgrounds chasing her kids, who frequently are wearing superhero capes. Natalie grew up in Iowa and Peoria, Ill. After college, she lived in St. Louis, Baton Rouge, La., and Austin, Texas. In 2005, she and her husband moved to North Carolina and she proudly sings every word to the "It's Carrboro" rap. Natalie loves politics, reggae and grocery stores and readily admits she wastes too much time reading celebrity gossip, but just can't stop herself.