Cue the shock and outrage that Target is already full of Christmas decorations and the fact that I saw the Starbucks Thanksgiving Blend available the week before Halloween and then watched it get switched over to the Christmas Blend the first week of November…ahh yes, it’s the most wonderful time...
So you want to take your tot to the library! Yay! Librarians love that. I’m one of them, and I’m not lying when I say sometimes I wake up and think, ‘People are gonna to come to the library today! Yay!’ We librarians really love you. But maybe you’re scared. ...
By the time this post goes up, the election will be over and we will have been relieved the of incessant, unending, unnerving, horrible, inaccurate (on all sides) political ads. Praise the Lord! I don’t believe in trying to change people’s minds on political issues. I think we’re lucky to live in a...
Ahh, maternity leave. That long (sometimes) stretch of time we (sometimes) get to see on the horizon as a pregnancy draws to its end. Nine months of baking a tiny human is a lot to undergo, but maternity leave — well, that’s just a huge, blank canvas for a new...
I lay on the floor in my daughter’s room. She’s almost two and a half, and has a tooth coming in, and has a cold, and a cough, and an on-and-off fever. I’m not in much better shape. The medication I’m taking for our upcoming IVF trip is knocking me...
It happens in the coffee shop, when my daughter is dangling like a noodle from my arm, trying to break free. It can happen in the store as she tosses the toilet paper package I let her hold out of the cart and onto the floor with glee. It’s happened...
Part One: Booking Suddenly realize that you wanted to get family photos done in time for holiday cards. Discover that photographer who did the photos you loooooved last year isn’t in the biz anymore. Sigh deeply. Google family photographers. Google them forever and ever and ever and ever…...
I remember back when I only had one kid (which wasn’t a very long period of time because Kids #1 and #2 are only 19 months apart) and probably for a while when I had only two kids that every time we left the house, I brought supplies for any...
I am a very organized person. I am Type-A and I like things to be done a certain way. I’m not a “neat freak” by any stretch of the imagination (although sometimes I wish that I were) but I like everything to have a place and I like everything to...
Mother Nature is one clever lady. Prior to having my own, I had never seen a newborn baby that I really thought was cute. I mean, they’re not ugly necessarily but they all kind of look the same – kind of like a cross between a worm and an alien....