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 [...]
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 [...]
The fact that sleep deprivation is legitimately used as a form of torture is not at all surprising to any parent ever. What is slightly more concerning is that according to science, sleep deprivation can lead to all sorts of chronic health problems including weight gain, heart disease, hallucinations, impaired brain activity (maybe Donald Trump is in need [...]
Today Dan and I have been married for 4 years. Which is really like 40 in kid years. Because one year of marriage with kids is pretty much equal to 10 years of marriage without kids. Now I know all the people without kids are like WTF NO. Marriage is hard whether or not you procreate. And [...]
Three-year-olds are horrible. And by three, I really mean like, two to four. I'm hoping it ends by four. I guess I don't really know. Some of my coworkers tell me that not all three-year-olds are assholes. Which I guess I believe because there are definitely some parents who have these angelic first-children and think [...]
In my 10 years as a coffee drinker I have learned that there are three types of people in the world. People who drink Dunkin' Donuts, people who drink Starbucks, and people who don't have young kids. I know this because people who have young kids: 1. need coffee on approximately the same level as they need [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Well, here we go again. I had another baby, blogged my entire maternity leave, then went back to work and can't even remember all the parts to my breast pump, much less write a post about it. So now, one month back into the grind, I'm finally coming up for air (i.e. hiding in the lactation room [...]
A couple years ago I wrote a blog post about how much I love/hate Pinterest. After that I kind of abandoned Pinterest because I discovered Instagram was trying to spend more phone-free time with my daughter. And then Lucy came along and I was once again couch-bound with a human leach, sucking the life out of me [...]
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