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If you read my blog post last month you know that my husband and I are in the process of potty training our two year old son. We are using the basic ideas presented in the book Oh Crap modified to fit our lifestyle and one month in I feel like I can confidently say…
For me, summer officially kicks off with the fourth of July. Now that it has come and gone summer is here and in full swing. What’s summer without a trip to the beach?! For the last three years my family has been blessed to be invited to my uncle’s beach cottage in Maine. My parents,…
Do you have a toddler? If so, you might be considering potty training or at the very least have it at the back of your head as something to think about in the future. Leaning to use the potty is a toddler rite of passage but I have also found that it seems to be…
Sometimes the weight crushes me. Find my socks. Make me breakfast. Change my diaper. Nurse nurse nurse. Vacuum. Pay the car insurance. Where is my doll? I want to go to soccer. Diapers. Clean. Bills. Food. Nursing. Errands. The weight of all of the demands crushes me. Everyone wants a piece of me every moment…
Have you ever left a doctor’s appointment feeling like a total failure of a parent? Have you ever disagreed with something that a doctor has told you but went with what they said anyway because you were afraid to contradict them? Mama instinct (or mama gut) is a powerful thing. It’s OK to listen to…
If you are an expecting mom you probably have created a baby registry, or at least are in the process of creating one. I started creating my baby registry when I was only about 4 months pregnant because Black Friday was coming up and the baby monitor that I really wanted was going to be…
Pregnancy, birth, and the fourth trimester are perhaps the most tumultuous time in a woman’s life. You have hormones, major life changes, sleep deprivation, and exhaustion all combined into one very short period in time. While nine months can feel like an eternity, really it is a very short period of time to experience such…
As Mother’s Day approaches in just a few days (May 13th) I have been thinking a lot about what motherhood means to me. In many ways I was completely unprepared for what being a mother would be like. Being a mom is in many ways the best but hardest job in the world. I wouldn’t…
As women, we play so many roles in our lives. We start out as daughters, and sisters, and friends, playmates, and students and as we grow and evolve some of these roles stay the same and some change. While we will always be daughters, sisters, and friends we also become girlfriends, fiancés, wives, teachers, doctors,…
Morning sickness. It goes with pregnancy like peanut butter goes with jelly. That queasy feeling that you just can’t shake early in pregnancy. It makes those first joyful weeks miserable for some and turns your former favorite food into a trip to the toilet heaving. But what happens when its more than that? When it…
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