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 [...]
One of my least appealing qualities as a person is the number of mom groups I belong to on Facebook. Seriously it's embarrassing. I am what "people who are in a lot of mom groups on Facebook" refer to as a lurker. I pretty much never post, rarely respond, but often roll my eyes at [...]
Welp, I totally missed Lucy's birthday post this year. Which is kind of a mom fail but also a mom win because we were on vacation and I spent the whole day with her at the pool instead of writing something on my blog. So there's that. Anyway I was going to just skip the [...]
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 [...]
It's so annoying how babies have to grow up. I mean I know I spent the last 12 months wishing Lucy would walk or talk or wipe her own ass - but then I'm like, WTF. I spent 10 months carrying you inside my stomach. Uterus. Whatever. Three of those months I spent puking out [...]
Welp...here we go again. Four plus weeks without a peep over here in mommy blogger land. I'd like to say that it's because I've been busy wrapping presents and baking cookies and making homemade fudge (OMG neighbors please stop making me look bad! But also please don't stop bringing us fudge...k? I promise I'm making [...]
