My love affair with Maine began at 2 years old, the first summer my parents rented a cottage at Higgins Beach. I was the ultimate beach babe - with sand in my hair and my sandwich and a bucket full of starfish. It only makes sense that 17 years later I would meet my future [...]
I'm the least crafty person I've ever met. Seriously. Not only do I NOT have the patience for crafting, but I also hate getting dirty, using paint or glue, kneeling on the floor, going to the craft store, waiting for things to dry (Sally Hansen Insta-Dri nail polish FTW) and picking up paper/fabric/glitter off the [...]
First things first, an update on the shoe situation: Last week I posted a picture of a pair of Freshly Picked Moccasins on Facebook. It looked like this: It generated a surprisingly heated discussion about whether or not I am a completely self-absorbed snob for wanting to buy $60 shoes for a 1 year old. [...]
I just went to an awesome conference on content marketing. It was called Content Marketing World, and it was hosted by the Content Marketing Institute, which is located in the amazing....wait for it....Cleveland, Ohio! I've never been to Cleveland before, and actually, it sucked way less than I thought it would based on that fact [...]
Before I had Mia I heard moms whining about leaving their one, two and even three years olds for the first time for a night and I rolled my eyes so hard it hurt the frontal lobe of my brain.COME. ON.The kid is three for pete's sake, get a grip.And then, like so many things [...]
Let me preface this by saying that I am not a non-toxic organic mom. I wish I was, sort of. But I only have so much energy to expend on a daily basis, and making sure my baby is fed, clothed and comfortable takes up about 90%. The other 10% goes to making enough money [...]
It's been about fifteen and a half seconds since we finished remodeling the upstairs bathroom in our new house, so naturally we've already found another project that requires ripping up floors and tearing down walls. I've come to the realization that we are going to be living "under construction" for the next 20 years rest of [...]
Today is Mia's first birthday, which is also the international day for "ask the parents when they're having the next baby." So I'm going to just get out ahead of it and let you know that it will be a cold day in hell before I have 2 children under 2 years old. So no. [...]
This post has a stupid title because babies don't sleep. Actually, babies sleep a lot, just not usually during nighttime hours. Scratch that. Babies sometimes sleep during nighttime hours. But only for a few minutes (hours?) at a time. Or when they are attached to a nipple or laying across your chest or with a couple of [...]
Today is the first Father's Day I've had two daddies to be thankful for. The one that gave me life, and the one that gave me Mia. It's a funny thing when you have a baby...like, the actual moment that they come out. Because you look down at your precious little miracle and you think you [...]
Oh Baby Richards 