Motherhood Mondays

I should really have put a question mark at the end of the blog post title, because honestly, I don’t know the answer. Lately, I’ve been exhausted and I have found it nearly impossible to muster the strength to play with James and run after and plan activities for him so he can get his energy out — and I feel terrible. Honestly, I’m so exhausted and there’s so much going on and it happens to coincide with this period where James is really active and really defiant, and I find myself losing my patience more than usual.

This March, Andrew and I will celebrate our five year wedding anniversary. I’m kind of…

Like many of you, when mid-January hit, we were ready for a vacation somewhere warm. Last year, after much debate, we decided to bring our then baby along on our vacation. I wrote a post about what I learned from our experience. Well, we just got back from another January trip to Florida, and I thought I’d share my vacation with toddler tips after surviving a beach vacation with our crazy two year old. While I felt more prepared and less panicked about traveling with James now that we’ve flown and vacationed with him a bunch, we still made some mistakes this time (and had some wins) and learned a lot.

When I set out to write a winter bucket list, I was basically tired of…

Right before we had James, we moved into a newly renovated apartment, and finished decorating it just in time for his arrival. I swore we wouldn’t be those parents whose entire apartment is taken over by toys. I swore we wouldn’t buy James that many toys. After all, they really only play with a few of them and prefer to just bang on pots and pans, I said. And then we had James, and two years later, our apartment is overflowing with toys.

So basically every day when I open the mail, I get to cry over the fact that another friend of mine is having a baby and I’m not. Something I used to love, opening Christmas cards has become something I dread.

I used to think it was silly to buy holiday pajamas…until I had kids. There’s…

It quickly skipped from fall to winter-like temps here, and I’m realizing that James’ wardrobe…

Every year we go skiing in Park City for Christmas, and it’s one of my…

Start routine at 6:45pm each night. Give ten and five minute warnings before. Then take…

Being slapped across the face by a screaming toddler is a true test of parenting.…

One of the hardest parts about dealing with infertility is trying to stay positive and…

We’re in the car often, and usually for longish stretches of time (by that I…

As we struggle to conceive and the months pass by, we’re faced with the question…

I was surprised that during my first visit with an infertility doctor, IVF came up…

When James was turning one, I had a lot of mixed emotions, which I hear…

As a working mom with a full-time job (running the website for a major woman’s…

I saw a family on the subway today. One mom with an infant in a…

Every night, James cries when I brush his teeth. He usually loves holding the toothbrush…

One of the most common questions I get and actually most busy moms I know…