My pantry had become a dumping ground for all things I wanted off my kitchen counters. If the counters are clear the kitchen is clean, right? Well sort of. The day my son grew tall enough to open the pantry door it was game over. My natural aversion to natural tidiness seems to be hereditary.… Read More
When my oldest was a baby we went a much more traditional route with food introduction. Purees to pouches to table food. By the time my daughter came around almost nineteen months later it was table scraps. Or as it is much more eloquently called baby led weaning. Both approaches are working as my kids… Read More
Self care is like the new it thing. Might as well be hot yoga. Or spinning. It’s trendy. Like a top knot or skinny jeans or kale. We are all so obsessed with making sure we are getting our self care in that it is just one more thing we moms are adding to our… Read More
I adore buying baby gifts for friends. There are few things more exciting than the birth of a new baby. Now that I’m a two time mama my gift giving has gone from the precious to the practical. Another trend that I fully embrace is not forgetting about mama in the gift giving. After my… Read More
Let me start of by saying that I am not writing this post from a place of mastery. I am not an expert on peaceful parenting. Anyone who actually knows me is laughing hysterically because I am not really an expert on peaceful anything. I don’t do yoga (minus the pants) because I have anxiety… Read More
Upon finding out that I was pregnant with my daughter, I vowed to keep up with my exercise regimen. Labor was going to be a piece of cake this time. Come to think of it, I was also going to have fewer pieces of cake. Turns out that working out did help with my morning… Read More
First off, let me say this is far from a war on screen time. There is almost nothing I love more than jammie clad babes, smelling like the bath watching a Disney classic on me. But with spring break quickly approaching I can see my screen time go to spiraling quickly out of control into… Read More
The most peculiar phenomenon occurs when you are pregnant. People pop out of the wood work to tell you their opinion on absolutely everything. This can stretch from well meaning best friends offering sage breastfeeding wisdom to down right rude interjections from strangers in the super market. This is for sure one of those things… Read More
Before my kids were born, I thought my time as a pediatric nurse would set me up well to be a mother. I had years of practice with basic skills and some more complex ones, how much different could it be to have your own? As Jen Hatmaker would say, Bless. As the nurse handed… Read More
This past week, I was admittedly really looking forward to Tuesday. I had a full day’s worth of errands to run, chores to do, stuff to check off my list. The weekend was filled with runny noses and cold weather, the stuff winters with little kids always bring. And, also my least favorite shift of… Read More
