"I felt each part of my life gave me respite from the other."- Ruth Bader Ginsburg Over the holiday break I spent way more time than usual with my toddler. Thanks to the holidays, my regular work-from-home day, and a horrible and ill-timed stomach virus I ended up staying home with Mia for 9 days [...]
My family has a LONG standing tradition of making and scrutinizing each other's New Years Resolutions. Back when we were kids it was done over a table filled with greasy Chinese Food. My Aunt Annie was the record keeper, carefully reading back the old, and writing down the new resolutions with exact wording (the details [...]
Since I've been pretty busy the last couple weeks, I asked Harley if she wanted to write a guest post on my blog. She's always complaining that I don't write about her, and that she never gets included in anything. Dogs sometimes! Anyway, she hesitantly agreed, but complained that she takes after her dad and [...]
Mia's cousin Dylan is just 6 weeks younger than her. I know they don't look 6 weeks apart, but I promise you they are. Even though Dylan is technically the younger cousin, he's never been the smaller cousin. Even on the day he was born he outweighed Mia by a little over a pound. The [...]
Wanna know the best thing about having kids? Dressing them up. I know I'm supposed to say rocking them to sleep, or slobbery open mouth kisses or tiny little voices that say "I wuv yous." But, c'mon. Can you even handle this?!! Since Mia was born I've been obsessed with dressing her in stylish baby [...]
Hello long lost blog. It's been a while, hasn't it? I have a good excuse though - 25 of them, actually. Houseguests. They came for Thanksgiving and despite the absolute craziness of preparing a 2000 square foot house to accommodate 28 people for a gigantic meal, it was fantastic. We had a huge snowstorm, lost [...]
Yesterday was Mia's final day of swim lessons. Hallelujah is all I have to say about that. As a typical first time mom I was beyond excited to finally enroll Mia in swim lessons. I even considered those crazy classes that they do for infants where you actually dunk them underwater at like 2 days [...]
Mia woke up at 5am on Friday morning so I had plenty of time before work to lie in bed and scroll through Pinterest while Mia removed every object from on top of every other object on the entire second floor of our house. Don't worry I had the gate up on the stairs [...]
The other day a coworker asked me for some recommendations on what toys to buy for her infant daughter. I had a moment of panic because I knew the RIGHT answer was wooden toys, recycled books, and gender neutral organic cotton dolls. But...Mia doesn't play with any of those things. Her favorite toy is plastic [...]
There was a time when Dan and I would decide that we wanted to go to the lake, and we would get in the car and drive there. Those days are farther gone than Bruce Jenner's man card. Leaving the house now, with a toddler in tow, is more like packing for a weeklong camping trip [...]
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