It's the first second week of January, which means it's time to quit coffee for a week or two, pay for a gym membership and make a list of things that need to be cleaned in my house. Of course I'm not actually going to do any of those things, but its the time of year where [...]
As a person who has traveled quite a bit in their lifetime, I'm pretty familiar with what people in other countries think about Americans. Sometimes it's adoration, like the schoolgirls I met in Japan. Sometimes it's curiosity, like the teenage soccer team I kicked around with in Ecuador. But mostly it's anger, or worse, pity. [...]
Dear Lucy, Last night I was reading a book to your big sister and in the book the mommy goes to the doctor for an ultrasound so the big sister can see what her baby sister looks like. Mia saw the picture and was immediately worried about you. "Oh no, mommy!" she said. "It's dark in there. Lucy's [...]
I'm 23 weeks pregnant now - and the nesting is already setting in. Poor Dan. Today I spent the morning going through all of Mia's old clothes and washing/sorting the newborn and 0-3mo outfits. I'm not sure if it's actually nesting, or just my desire to justify more baby clothes shopping, but either way it's making [...]
When you're pregnant for the second time it's really easy to forget. Like, actually forget your pregnant. Sometimes Dan has to remind me that I can't have a beer and I'm thinking, why? And then I get wicked heartburn and it's like, oh yeah. But earlier this week at my 19 week ultrasound it got [...]
I feel like a lot has happened since I wrote my last post but I can't remember any of it because all I can think about is Mia's first gymnastics class and how I've never seen her so excited about anything in her entire life. Including bouncy houses. Including goats. Including...even marshmallows. I don't have any [...]
You guys. Potty training. WTF. How is this a thing that people just do and don't really talk about? I mean I know people write books and blogs and essays and all that about it (OH BELIVE ME, I know, I read like, I think all of them). But how do I have a bazillion [...]
This blog was born when I got pregnant with Mia. It started as a simple way to document my pregnancy for my friends and family, and also for myself since everyone warned me it would be such a blur that I would forget immediately after Mia was born all of the aches and pains and adventures of [...]
When Mia turned one, everyone started asking me when we were going to have the next baby (as if having one baby isn't miraculous or difficult or complete enough). This is what I had to say to them: "July 28th, 2014: One year ago today I pushed a 7.5 pound child out of my vagina [...]
Oh Baby Richards 