It's so annoying how babies have to grow up. I mean I know I spent the last 12 months wishing Lucy would walk or talk or wipe her own ass - but then I'm like, WTF. I spent 10 months carrying you inside my stomach. Uterus. Whatever. Three of those months I spent puking out [...]
The summer of 2006 I was a high school graduate full of hope and excitement for the future. I was busy packing clothes and picking classes and taking bikini selfies for my Facebook profile. I was reading Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - the required literature for incoming freshmen at Clark University. I had [...]
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 [...]
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I'm not exactly sure why breastfeeding matters so much to me. My knee jerk reaction is that my mom breastfed me, and because when it comes to motherhood I aspire to be as much like her as I can - naturally I wanted to breastfeed, too. But then I found out she only breastfed me for [...]
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 [...]
I've always been a little bit obsessed with "health." And by health I mean exercise and weight management. So not really health. Growing up my parents were always training for one race or another, oftentimes a marathon. And I was always training for the next tryout. Soccer, diving, ultimate. As a family we were almost [...]
The drive home took three and a half hours. One and a half of which was spent leaning over the passenger seat picking up a dropped iPad, sock, water bottle - and feeding puffs one by one to a screaming baby. Dinner was no improvement. A rejected PB&J tossed casually into the trash, and threats [...]
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 [...]
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