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?

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

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, ...

Little known fact: Tiny baby toes.....they're magically delicious.

"Little babies can also look like old people, I've decided." -The infinite wisdom of my husband

As I'm drifting off to sleep, I can't help but to hear the sound of my baby and her daddy having the sweetest conversation. It is a chorus of soft "aowww"s and "ooooowaaaaaohhh"s and squeals and even a few "I love you"s (or, in baby language, "ehhh ehhh ehhh"....but, I swear, she says it with the ...

What did you do today? Anything exciting? Who, me? Oh, nothing. Just tweeted with my girlfriend, Tori Spelling. P.S. Just made a twitter. SO new to this. Don't quite get it. Show me the way. Follow me @mommyeverafter

The best part of my day was when I walked into the baby's bedroom to find my husband brushing her freshly washed hair (all four of them) and telling her that he was getting her ready for a special daddy-daughter date at "Chez Bed" for snuggle time. I mean, come on. Does it get sweeter than that? Oh, who ...