One of my least appealing qualities as a person is the number of mom groups I belong to on Facebook. Seriously it's embarrassing. I am what "people who are in a lot of mom groups on Facebook" refer to as a lurker. I pretty much never post, rarely respond, but often roll my eyes at [...]
I realize that my experience as a parent and therefore knowledge of parenting is considerably limited (about 4 months worth) BUT I also realize that the further removed you get from pregnancy, birth, caring for a newborn, etc. - the more you forget how difficult it was, and the more often you say things like [...]
I realize it's been over a month since I've posted anything on this blog. That's because it's been over a month since I've done anything besides eat, sleep, nurse, pump, work and sing "I'm a Little Teapot" ten thousand times in a row. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. Well, I am complaining but [...]
Monday I go back to work. I've been putting off writing those words, and this post for two reasons. For one, because I can't type while holding a baby and right now I pretty much refuse to put Mia down. And two, because just writing about going back to work makes me cry and yesterday [...]
Being a parent is hard. Being a parent of a newborn is really hard. But for centuries people have continued to have kids (granted some of them not on purpose, and some of them for the purpose of having enough farm hands - but many are lovingly and intentionally brought into this world) and now [...]
Oh Baby Richards 