Ages + Stages

Dear New Mom, Congratulations on your new bundle of joy! I know these days are chock full of emotions. Seeing that precious face that you've been trying to imagine for 9 months, counting those fingers and toes one more time,...

Sometimes I am so out of the loop with trends that I kind of feel like an alien. That's how it is with gender reveal parties. . .  and Pinterest. But that's a whole other post. I see all the...

The birth of my fourth child is best described as a "Grand Finale," but to understand why my fourth birth story deserves a name so grand, I will have to take you back to the birth of my first...

New life is so precious. Those exhilarating moments just after your newborn has exited your body in an explosion of searing pain and now lays cuddled safe and warm on mama’s chest. The space where all the pain of...

When I became a parent in 2015, I really thought I had parenting in the bag. I had been a babysitter or nanny for over 10 years, and I had been in charge of some pretty tough kids. I...

Last school year ended like the scene in Titanic when the old lady drops the Heart of the Ocean into the water instead of selling it and leaving the millions of dollars it was worth to her next of...

While I was pregnant with my first child, the whole "birthing and newborn baby thing" was fascinating to me. I was obsessed with watching shows such as "Bringing Home Baby" and "A Baby Story". I would scroll through my...

  It’s 7:30 in the morning, and I catch myself dragging my feet into your classroom. I’m busy complaining about how I’ve been up for an hour and I barely slept. Meanwhile, you’ve been here since six o’clock. You turned...

Each of us sets boundaries in our lives. Some grow subconsciously over time, others with much more thought. We set boundaries for ourselves, and we set boundaries for those with whom we interact. They’re important and sometimes downright imperative. When...

To begin, I feel it must be said that I firmly believe every birth is incredible! Whether you have a C-Section birth, a natural birth, a medicated birth, a home birth, a tub birth… Mama, you just birthed a...

Well, it happened. Our first child lulled us into a false sense of security, and we decided to have another. After spending much time laying in bed (thanks, morning sickness) while my toddler watches episode after episode of Daniel...

I'm sure we've all heard it from someone, or read it somewhere, but my current life motto is this: having a toddler is hard. In all honestly, they're kinda jerks. Of course, infancy is spent mostly in an exhausted...