***Click here for an UPDATE - 2 years later*** I usually write in this blog about babies and breastfeeding and potty training and other cute and gross and funny and sentimental things. So I apologize in advance for this one. It's about insurance. STOP! Don't leave. I know insurance is not what anyone wants to talk or [...]
I got into "mommy blogging" by accident. When I got pregnant with Mia I started a (private) blog as a way to keep my parents and close family up-to-date on the goings-on of my pregnancy. And then at some point enough people requested the password to read it that I just unlocked it and made it public. And [...]
They say there are 24 hours in every day - but I assure you that the days following a pregnancy due date have more like 7,458. I thought that this time around I wouldn't be so anxious. I thought having a 2.5 year old would distract me, and that those final weeks would fly by [...]
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 [...]
You guys. Potty training. WTF. How is this a thing that people just do and don't really talk about? I mean I know people write books and blogs and essays and all that about it (OH BELIVE ME, I know, I read like, I think all of them). But how do I have a bazillion [...]
This blog was born when I got pregnant with Mia. It started as a simple way to document my pregnancy for my friends and family, and also for myself since everyone warned me it would be such a blur that I would forget immediately after Mia was born all of the aches and pains and adventures of [...]
When Mia turned one, everyone started asking me when we were going to have the next baby (as if having one baby isn't miraculous or difficult or complete enough). This is what I had to say to them: "July 28th, 2014: One year ago today I pushed a 7.5 pound child out of my vagina [...]
Oh Baby Richards 