A few weekends back I hit the thrift stores with my mom. We were on the lookout for some unique decor for the nursery, something I’d struggled with finding. Charlie’s room is a mixture of white, gray, blush, and sage, so the typical…
Around the time that the Rock ‘n Play recall occurred, my youngest son Charlie was about 2 months old. Charlie does not like to be flat on his back at all which posed a problem in getting him to sleep at night. We finally…
Another Mother’s Day for the books, but my first as a mother of two! I started out the holiday with a Muffins with Mom breakfast at Fox’s school. I’m so grateful for the teachers and staff that so thoughtfully put this together for all…
When I first moved in with my husband, we had almost nothing to our names. He was a touring musician, constantly on the road and not in need of a home, and I had moved cross country with two cats and whatever else would…
Since the very first time we put Fox in the bathtub, he screamed at the top of his lungs the second water touched his face and hair. I could tell that he was genuinely terrified of water. Fox is fearless in every sense of…
For four years I walked hand-in-hand with jealousy. It’s something I consciously struggled with, constantly talking myself off the ledge after letting myself know I wasn’t being rational. The notion still lived in my body deep down. It all stemmed from feeling like a…
As I mentioned before in my list of baby girl names we would have picked, Charlie was always going to be a Charlie. Initially we had decided it would be his middle name after a contentious battle over whether or not we would roll…
Charlie was going to be called “Charlie” regardless of gender. He is named after my grandfather, Charles. Originally, we decided it would be the first name Charlie for a girl and a middle name for a boy, but a month before he was born…
Since the moment Charlie was born, I’ve had a flurry of friends and medical professionals asking how he’s being fed. What’s interesting to me about this is that when I say Charlie is breastfed, nearly everyone assumes Fox was too. Let me back up…
When my husband and I got together, we started talking seriously about what our road to building our family would look like. We decided on 2-3 kids after a few years of marriage and traveling, back-to-back so they’d be close in age. Then Fox…
Our Charlie was due to arrive March 9th. Starting around 20 weeks of pregnancy, I started to get very painful contractions that came about every 2-5 minutes, so by the end of February I was completely freaking out. I was convinced that I wouldn’t…
We are just weeks, maybe even days, away from baby boy’s arrival! Our checklist is dwindling and hospital bags are packed. We’ve been trying to narrow down the last essentials in preparation for the baby’s imminent arrival. Meanwhile, his big brother Fox has been…
I learned a lot about baby brands the first time around. We were lucky enough to receive a lot of hand-me-downs from family, but we also put a ton of our own money into trial and error deciding what products we actually needed, which…
I’ve given myself a lot of grace this pregnancy including naps on-demand, not picking up the house when my body just didn’t want to seem to let me, and eating whatever I want (so long as it was baby-safe). I figured that my body…
I’m doing something a bit different today than I usually do and I’ll be sharing some personal details of pregnancy #2! I entertained the idea of doing a weekly or monthly series outlining all the changes I’m going through, but my pregnancy with Fox…