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 [...]
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, [...]
If you know me, you know that I could care less about my clothes. My standard "uniform" consists of jeans and some kind of drape-y shirt. Although these days it's more like yoga pants (that have never been to yoga) and a pajama tee, sans bra. Sometimes I also wear the baby 😉 But my [...]
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 [...]
Welcoming a new baby into the world is a miracle. Almost as beautiful as the miracle of an epidural. But after the dust settles (literally, all over the living room), the family members leave and everyone else on the planet resumes their normal life - mothers are left with a very tiny, very demanding, very ungrateful little life-form whose [...]
When you're pregnant with your second child there are two questions that everyone (yes, everyone) asks you. Are you ready? What does [insert name of older sibling] think about the baby? The answer to both questions is who the hell knows. I mean really, who knows what a 2.5 year old is thinking about anything? I [...]
There's a country song that my dad loves to quote for me every time I get ahead of myself. Like when I decided to move to Maine at 17 to live with my aunt and uncle at their summer home and wait tables to save for school. Or when I adopted a puppy my senior [...]
The funny thing about pregnancy and childbirth is that you spend SO LONG waiting for your baby to be born - and then as soon as you go into labor time somehow shifts into hyper-speed and suddenly you're home from the hospital with a newborn and a toddler and your husband is back to work [...]
I've been both eager and terrified to write Lucy's birth story. Eager because the experience is still so fresh and so raw and so full of emotion. Nervous because this time around my blog actually has followers and I know people are expecting this and reading this and there is no way that even the [...]
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