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. [...]
A Letter for Lucy
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 [...]
Change is Hard
Somebody somewhere once said "The only constant in life is change." I don't know who said it and I don't have the energy to google it, but whoever they are they are very smart and also the kind of person you want to kick really hard in the shins because DUH but also FUCK. Change [...]
5 Mom Hacks I Learned the First Time Around
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 [...]
Life Isn’t Fair
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 [...]
It’s a…
How far along? 19 (and a half) weeks Total weight gain: 5lbs Maternity clothes? for the next year or so probably Sleep: was going well until Mia's baby monitor broke and since we can't really hear her from our room without it I now wake up every hour hearing fantasy baby cries. Please tell me this is a [...]
I Love You More
They say distance makes the heart grow fonder, which I can assure you as someone who is married to a chef, is complete bullshit. Distance makes the heart grow resentful, is what it does. But I think maybe whoever it was that coined that phrase wasn't talking about their significant other, but rather, a child. Because [...]
Fantasy Football Sucks and I’m Not Sorry
I HATE Fantasy Football. I hate it. Seriously, I wish it would crawl into a hole and die a slow painful death by being forced to watch 17 football games at once until the end of time. Now before all the haters start lining up to punch me in the throat, let me just make it clear [...]
5 Rules for a Real(istic) Marriage
Earlier this week it was Dan and my 3rd wedding anniversary. We commemorated the day by waking up, grabbing our cell phones to scroll Facebook, and then saying to each other - "oh look, today is our anniversary...according to Facebook anyway." Trust me, it was really romantic. This is the space I had originally reserved [...]
Mia Does Gymnastics and I Got Pregnant
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 [...]
Oh Baby Richards 