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…
There’s nothing like the smell of a clean house. Few things bring on the nostalgia as much as a fresh lemon scent. It’s ingrained in my brain from Sunday house cleanings as a kid. One of the brands that shaped that yummy scent of…
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…
When I was a kid, my family made a big deal of Easter egg hunts. We didn’t head out to public places for them, they were always done in the house with the help of a lot of crafty clues that lead me to…
On our last big family trip we visited Iceland and noticed something about each of the residences we stayed at: they had tiny little trash cans for the entire household. I’m embarrassed to say that we had roughly 4 times the amount of trash…
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…
Can you believe it’s been a year since we moved to Buffalo? After our family moved across the country, we were starting fresh with almost everything. It was too costly to fix up all of our rooms at once, so our sunroom took a…
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’ve had our fair share of things to get done this spring. Everything from deep cleaning our house and moving our rooms around to better suit our growing family to Fox’s swim lessons and dealing with a heavy winter – oh did I mention…
Although it’s becoming easier to talk about, mental health is still considered taboo in a variety of situations. When you’re about to have a baby, it’s scary to share with others that you’re headspace might not be in the exact place you’d hope it…
You’ve probably heard a lot about energy conservation for years and years, and if you’re anything like me, you might have figured you were pretty limited in the actual amount of energy you and your family can actually conserve. But the truth is, there…
