Well guys, we did a thing. Dan and I have this habit of doing everything at once all the time. For example, the week that I graduated from college we also got a puppy and moved to Maine and both got new jobs . Then two years after that we bought a house, got married [...]
I don’t even know what to write here that hasn’t already been said by every parent crying into their wine at 11pm while trying to figure out what to put on their timesheet for the hours they spent yelling at their kids to be quiet so they could work. If you read or watch or [...]
I really wanted this post to be funny. And, a couple of funny things have happened over the past week. But mostly just the kind of funny where it’s actually so stressful that you just laugh because the alternative is crying you have already cried four times that day. Like when you’re scrubbing dog vomit [...]
Believe me when I tell you I am the last person on earth to voluntarily stay home with my kids. I am the person that avoids “hanging out at home” at all costs and plans 72 activities an hour all weekend long until I run my family ragged because I just cannot handle sitting around [...]
Between working and momming and Christmas shopping and reminding Dan to do his Christmas shopping (he has to buy for a grand total of one person and even still I do about half of it for him) – it’s no surprise that I am fresh out of patience for taking the kids to the mall [...]
Before you ask - the answer is yes, it's permanent. I let my 6-year-old dye her hair pink. And it was totally worth it and here's why. I have this distinct memory from my childhood of wanting to get my ears pierced. I was maybe 8 or 9 and I had never wanted anything so [...]
This year marks my sixth year of motherhood. And what feels like an entire world away, three of my closest friends are celebrating their first weeks. Three perfect little boys. And by perfect I mean healthy, very needy little creatures that cry at all hours of the day and night. When I talked with each [...]
Parents make a lot of sacrifices for their kids. I knew this going into it and was at least moderately prepared to not sleep, give up alcohol for 9 months, and have yet another person continuously trying to suck on my nipples. But I was not prepared for camping. I mean, I did plenty of [...]
She’s six years old this morning. Technically tonight, 19 hours of labor later. The moment before I brought Mia into the world I remember the doctor looking into my panicked eyes and telling me, this is the ring of fire. It means she’s almost here. What it actually meant was that my body was literally [...]
It’s 6am and she’s peeking cautiously into my room, illuminated by a halo of early dawn light. She just needs a snuggle she says, and then she’ll go back to sleep. It’s a lie and we both know it but I lift up the covers anyway and she presses her warm body into mine, her [...]
Oh Baby Richards 