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There must be something in the water this year because it seems as though it is the season of baby showers. So many of my friends are choosing to start their families and I couldn’t be happier for them....

Looking for aaaaallll the info on what it's like to do pandemic parenting? Need to commiserate about how parenting during a pandemic is making you lose your mind a little (or a lot)? Feeling like it's impossible to juggle...

Yes, I know, it's hard to believe that I could ever say anything dingbatty - yep made that word up too. However, before becoming a mom I actually said quite a few things about motherhood that I'm now completely...

A few years ago when my oldest was almost two I decided that it would be SO fun if he played soccer.  And since he wasn't old enough to actually play soccer I found a Mommy & Me soccer...

Do you ever see your child's actions and wonder, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?! I have those thoughts almost every single day.  It's only when I start to remember how ridiculous I was when I was a kid that I realize people...

I have a teenager.  And I really think that trying to parent a teenager is a lot like trying to lose weight.  This may seem like a super strange comparison, but let me explain. First - there's the day before...

What would happen if I acted like a toddler?   I often think about this because some of the behavior my toddler exhibits is pretty funny, but absolutely NOT acceptable in everyday adult life.  However, there are times where I...

Sourdough bread, puzzles, Animal Crossing, dalgona coffee. All of these come to mind when we think through different random pandemic 'seasons' we have had. What else needs to be on the list?! Surely we forgot some. But what is...

I'm from Iowa.  Moving to California was part of my big adventure as a newly graduated college kid.  I experienced a lot of social changes after moving to the Golden State.  However, nothing quite prepared me for moving to...

Guys, today my almost two-year-old ate fruit snacks for breakfast.   In my defense they were organic! Thank you, Costco. As I allowed this travesty of a breakfast to happen, I realized that I am flying by the seat of my pants....

Grey's Anatomy likes to give nicknames to their doctors, McDreamy, McSteamy, McVet etc.  And I'd say that I've definitely got myself a McDreamy, for more reasons than one. See, there comes a point in everyone's life when you realize you've...

We've all had a mom life crisis outburst.  You know, when you realize that you're a mom and not the seventeen-year-old you see in your head.   Sometimes the mom life crisis outbursts can be as simple as deciding to...

Not unlike most stories, mine begins on an average day. It's Tuesday. I drop my toddler off at preschool while my one-year-old twins are supervised by a trusted adult. Little can prepare me for what's in store upon my...

My husband and I were in that newborn-first-child-we-can-still-do-everything-we-did-BEFORE-we had-a-baby-phase.  We were young and naive.  Well, I was young.  He was just naive.  {LOVE YOU BABE!}  So of course we decided to go to dinner.  Easy as a blowout pie,...