Motherhood Mondays

I think shopping for holiday gifts for teachers stresses me out more than any other…

Summer is my favorite time of year, and while the coronavirus pandemic has changed many…

Continuing my quest to become a better cook or at least better at putting together…

Like many of you, I’m currently trying to figure out how to keep my kids…

I cannot believe my baby is already six months old. I know I say this…

I know Coronavirus is on all of our minds right now, and tbh, my anxiety…

After sharing my breastfeeding journey and my favorite breast pumps, I started getting a lot…

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

This Friday, Andrew and I had our first night out since having baby Charlotte. Honestly,…

James is turning three in September (tear), which means I’ll not only be shopping for…

If you follow me on Instagram, you know that we welcomed a baby girl two…

I had no idea what to pack for the hospital for myself to wear the…

I was so focused for so long on having another baby that I honestly didn’t…

Ok, so I admit it. I got cocky. I thought I had this whole tantrum…

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.