Diaper parties are about diapers, yes, but they’re also about your baby daddy getting a last hurrah with his friends before his life morphs into that of constant baby care. He needs it, his friends need it, its good for everyone. Diapers are something that every baby uses, whether cloth Read more…
This is from my old, pre-babies blog, but it still has some legit savings opportunities I thought I should share here too (who can’t use savings, right?!?). As you’ll see in a post from when I found out I was pregnant with our first baby, I did pick up smoking Read more…
A one-year-old is a strange and wonderful being. So active, so loving, and while improving communication skills, they’re still not great. Its a weird place for me. I feel like he’s growing too fast, and that if I blink, I’ll miss too much, but I also look forward to the Read more…
So our little bear is nine months old! awwww shit! Its pretty crazy to think that this tiny person who once just smiled now walks along the side of furniture, crawls with toys in his hands, climbs out of ALL of his seats and says Dada, Mama, Baba, Uh-Oh, and Read more…
Before we had our baby, my drive was to find a career. Any career. I applied to major companies and a couple of startups, but literally THOUSANDS of jobs in total. I was spammed, and spammed and spammed again by “recruiters” but not many with great reputations, and the more Read more…
1.Needing to pee! Its not just when your baby gets big inside of you that the need to pee every 14 seconds happens… it can happen for the majority of your pregnancy. With my first pregnancy I didn’t have this too much, but during my second pregnancy (which started about Read more…
There are some amazing things, primarily things gifted upon us, that we probably couldn’t imagine living without, and there are other things we were certain we needed that we maybe did not. There were the things we bought ourselves and the things we would buy others, because they are SO Read more…
So, I never realized before I had our son how much I wouldn’t want to leave his side once he was born. Maybe its weird that I didn’t know, but we were, Alex and I, just so wrapped up in planning and making sure things were “taken care of” prior Read more…
So, as a first-time Mom, I was completely unable to sleep easily, and it wasn’t simply because of the babies frequent needs, whether they be for a fresh diaper or a meal. I found I couldn’t sleep because I had so much anxiety that something would happen to him. I Read more…
Our little dude is now FIVE WHOLE MONTHS OLD! There are so many things I just never realized before he came along, too. I’ve Nannied, and learned a lot from that, but it truly isn’t until you have your own child or a child that you live with day-in-and-day-out that Read more…
Leave Time between tasks to prepare or deal with any commute. You can plan every moment, and the moment you stop giving yourself times between tasks is the very moment your day falls apart. Stop. Leave tasks for another time if they’re not imperative and if you’ll have more time Read more…
Blogging Tasks to Check Off of Your List Before Baby Arrives 1.Time-Management – so you wont know when your baby has to poop, pee, eat by looking at a schedule, but you will know before the baby even arrives that there will be nap times. Try to plan out what Read more…
Labor & Delivery So the idea of giving birth to another human being, regardless of their size, can be a terrifying prospect, but what’s more terrifying than the actual process is how little people share on the topic. You can read all the books and online blogs… you can Read more…
8 Minutes Ago Eight minutes ago, I met the love of my life… or at least that’s how it feels sometimes. A little over a year ago, I decided to join a dating site. I wanted to meet new people and I liked the idea of having a computer arbitrarily Read more…