I finally started going to therapy. I say finally because it's been 8+ years since I was last in therapy, battling an eating disorder I never imagined I could defeat. And then I did. Which is why I'm back in therapy. This time up against persistent anxiety that has been slowly eating away at my sanity, and my [...]
Lucy is officially one, and as she grows out of the baby stage and into toddlerhood, I'm celebrating by selling all of her stuff. Ha- sorry Lucy! I'll admit, I did have a small moment of sentimentality - particularly when I mailed off that SollyBaby wrap that she basically lived in for the first couple months - but [...]
For my birthday this year I got a DSLR camera. This one, to be specific. Even though I have no aspirations of becoming a professional photographer, and every professional photographer I know told me my iPhone was perfectly capable of taking every kind of photo I could ever want for my blog - I still wanted [...]
I've always been a little bit obsessed with "health." And by health I mean exercise and weight management. So not really health. Growing up my parents were always training for one race or another, oftentimes a marathon. And I was always training for the next tryout. Soccer, diving, ultimate. As a family we were almost [...]
This past week parenting publications everywhere commenced a full-on freak out about the new Lulla doll, and the fact that incredibly overtired parents everywhere were willing to shell out $100+ bucks for it. I'm still not quite sure why this is news, considering American Girl Dolls cost like $150 million dollars (not including clothes), and those have [...]
***Click here for an UPDATE - 2 years later*** I usually write in this blog about babies and breastfeeding and potty training and other cute and gross and funny and sentimental things. So I apologize in advance for this one. It's about insurance. STOP! Don't leave. I know insurance is not what anyone wants to talk or [...]
**This post is an addendum to The Global OB Fee Trap: How to Find and Fight It. It probably won't make any sense unless you read that first!** Fighting your insurance company is a pain the ass. There's no way around it. But persistence pays off and if you fight hard enough you will usually [...]
This past weekend Dan and I co-hosted a neighborhood BBQ in which we spit-roasted an absolutely delicious pig from a local farm. Everyone loved it, except Facebook. I'm going to just preface this by saying that for 10 years I was a vegetarian. In my defense it was during a period of time (5th grade [...]
If you've ever flown on Southwest airlines, then you know about their innovative and unique seating system. The way it works is you check in online for your flight exactly 24 hours before takeoff, and based on how fast your clicker finger is, you get assigned a letter and a number. A1-60 is the best, [...]
I got into "mommy blogging" by accident. When I got pregnant with Mia I started a (private) blog as a way to keep my parents and close family up-to-date on the goings-on of my pregnancy. And then at some point enough people requested the password to read it that I just unlocked it and made it public. And [...]
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