New Mom Tips

  These are just some funny little tidbits I get from my every day of motherhood. I will be updating them as I go. Mom Tip #1: Now that my son has started refusing to sleep, teething isn’t helping the situation,

Avoiding Post Pregnancy Cabin Fever

  Post pregnancy cabin fever can be a real bitch. I was at home 24/7, wearing pads due to after baby bleeding, slightly loopy from the drugs for the body pain, constipated and the only conversation you have is with a

Packing A Practical Hospital Bag

Even though I had planned my hospital bag two month before I went into labor, I ended up taking a lot of stuff I didn’t end up using. This was a huge pain since about 30 minutes after pushing out

Writing Your Birth Goals

Before making this, I talked with my doctor about what was feasible so we were both on the same page. Then we reviewed this during the last 3 appointments just to make sure everything was clear. We printed out multiples

Making Homemade Reese’s Eggs

For Easter this past weekend I decided to make three different deserts. At least one had to turn out ok, right? My husband LOVES Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups so these were an obvious choice to try out. This is the

The Bowels of Pregnancy

I’ve said it before and I will say it again. Giving birth feels like the worst constipation you will ever have. You push that baby like the biggest poop you will ever experience. He/she is a little shit before they

Adventures in Cloth Diapering

I am lucky. I was not the first of my friends to have a baby, so I had all their advice to build on with my own little one. One of my mommy friends used cloth diapers and they sounded like

How to Make “Not” Apple Chips

First, this was an “on a whim” attempt since my son just fell asleep and I thought I had everything I would need, or at least substitutes that would still work. I came across this Pinterest post. Wow. Looks and sounds

Explaining Makeup to My Son

I recently started going back to work. Just two hours here and there. My fabulous job has a kid’s center where I can drop off my son for up to two hours a day. This is perfect for when I am

The Smell of Motherhood

Before I had my baby, I expected my house to smell of poopy diapers. Turns out that my baby’s poop didn’t even smell until he was about one month old. That, I didn’t expect. What I also did not expect