How do you leave dirty diapers laying in a pile in your house? What about dishes piled in the sink? Dirt on the furnace vents? End tables un-dusted? Oh goodness, seriously, baby fingerprints on the fridge?! That would freak. me. out. *sarcasm* And...
How do you feel about your postpartum body? I imagine, quite possibly a lot like I feel about mine. It’s overweight. (Well, over the weight I want it to be). And stretched out, lumpy, sore, scarred, stretch marked, emotional and hormone...
Life is radically different from 3 years ago. If you would’ve told me then that by this time, I will have experienced pregnancy, completely natural labor and delivery – TWICE, started, lived through and mostly finished another whole...
It’s been a long day. No, it’s been a long week. There’s been a thousand diaper changes, at my hand. More than 50% requiring a whole outfit change because the poop or spit up was too much to just be wiped away. (I don’t wipe...
I’ve come across quite a few people that honestly think having a baby is a blissful, fulfilling, amazing, breathtaking, easy-as-pie sort of thing. You’re thinking I’m going to say, ‘Not so!’, but not so. They’re...
Disclaimer: This is NOT a post about my own situation, but about the underlying problem in our society. Something sweet we have experienced this time around is the care and love from unexpected places. The doctor I worked for up until the month...
Giggling and excited pattering of 16 month old feet running across the room is what you hear when our older friend from church, John, comes over to help my hubby work on the house. When Mom and Dad, my husband’s parents, came over to get our...
This election season has been brutal. If you haven’t been in the trenches of it, if your Facebook feed hasn’t exploded with people crying, complaining, celebrating, bemoaning or belittling others, your family isn’t either raging...
This pregnancy has been weird. 27 weeks flew by and we’re down to the wire with huge house renovations again, causing massive amounts of deja vu. (This happened last time, only with a different house!) I’ve struggled through a lot of it...
This is a taboo topic. Everyone just wants a “healthy baby”. Right? Sometimes it’s not that simple. Sometimes the gender of your baby can affect you in ways you didn’t even know it would. Shortly after my 30th birthday we...
