When I found out that I was pregnant with Miss S and Cap’n M was still getting 75-85% of his diet from breastfeeding, thousands of questions entered my head, of course. Will my milk all dry up? Will he starve? Is it even safe for me to breastfeed during my pregnancy? Luckily, one of my […]
When you’re expecting your fifth baby, it can be hard to keep it as exciting as your earlier pregnancies were. Things aren’t quite so new, you’re getting snotty comments from strangers in public, and you have a bunch of other things on your mind, like your four kids that are already here and screaming at […]
As I sit down to write this blog post, Miss S is napping. Mr. C and Cap’n M are playing “PJ Masks” and occasionally “kick high fiving” each other, which is the new way they’ve found to kick each other without getting in trouble for fighting, and A-Man is watching his favorite Tinkerbell movie. I […]
One of my favorite summer memories growing up was having tons of summer sleepovers at my grandma’s house. Where else can you eat ice cream at midnight and put extra sugar on your cereal? Now that I have kids, I know they love spending the night at their Nima and Papa’s (my mom & dad) […]
It was a totally normal conversation with a friend. We were talking about things that drive us up the wall, and after a few messages back and forth it became obvious that seemingly “normal” things were completely intolerable to me. If my husband takes a different route to the grocery store, for example. Annoying? Possibly, but […]
Every parent is pretty sure they’re failing at least 84% of the time. They aren’t doing what that mom does, or they’re too sensitive for their child or they’re not helping their child make friends. I get it. We research to death and do our best, and still feel like we’re getting it wrong most […]
