As a stay-at-home mom, Meredith Bartolo Pappas discovered that doodling about the ridiculous moments she witnessed daily with her kids became a way to make time for herself.

The mother of two was a teacher for more than a decade when she decided to become a stay-at-home mom, a decision she said she was lucky and thrilled to be able to make. She told HuffPost that she began missing teaching, but found a therapeutic outlet through putting pen (or pencil) to paper and illustrating her life as a mom and the funny day-to-day moments many parents know all too well.