Category Archive for "mommyhood"

you know you’re watching too many Grey’s Anatomy reruns when…

....you yell to your husband, in the next room, "I need you to bring me a nasal aspirator, STAT!"

slumber party

Sweet sleep. I can remember the days of sleeping on my very own schedule, in my very own bed, to my very own heart's desire. That changed once we expanded our family. And I'm not talking about when we had a baby. No, our sleep has not been our own since we brought home our first child, an extremely rare ...

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for. -author unknown

swim(un)suit(able)

I have a dirty little secret. I’ve been marked. Stretch marked. Yes, I’m one of the unfortunate few who have been permanently branded with a scarlet letter. Or should I say, letters. A red alphabet that stretches across my middle, like graffiti. I remember the innocent days of a mark free stomach. I also remember the evening when the first, tiny, innocuous ...

So, on a nutritional scale of 1-10, how would animal crackers rank as a healthy, well-balanced breakfast?

save the date

So, yesterday, my husband I were chatting. I asked him about our baby's first birthday party. You know, our baby, who just turned 10-weeks-old... I was only kidding around! Well, kinda. I may be crazy But I'm not THAT kind of crazy. Anyway, I was just daydreaming about our little girl, her hands and face covered in globs of pink cupcake icing, with a giant "1" ...

"This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body." -Jennifer Weiner

a pregnant pause

This morning, as I rifled through my freezer, I was hit with a memory. It was almost exactly a year ago that I was doing the same freezer-shuffle at breakfast time. Now, this time, I was only going in to retrieve some ice for an almond milk breakfast smoothie (and no, it's not yummier than it sounds, ...