Ok. A few things about this week. A. The bed is no place for a bear cub. Turn your back for one minute and the little cub will crawl right off. Our week started with an emergency trip to our pediatrician. I attributed my malaise, weakness, and stomach cramps to the emotional discomfort of feeling like a total failure with your infant son. B. Apparently, the pediatrician's office is flooded Continue Reading
Ten things you don’t anticipate when becoming a mother.
We're still working on little Bear's crawling skills...and it is frustrating. I get frustrated thinking about all the time I didn't put him on his belly...and he is frustrated because I keep pushing him to move in a way that he absolutely does not want to move. It was somewhere in between attempting to put his knees together and him dive bombing on his quilt when I realized that I really need to Continue Reading
Motherlode of reasons why SAHMs are just the same as working moms
A few years ago, we all laughed when Kristen Wig transformed into Penelope: the nervous, hair-twirling, one-upping brunette. No one laughed because her character was funny, necessarily, but because everyone knows a Penelope. And Penelopes make us uncomfortable. Discomfort makes us laugh to keep us from crying. Penelopes know our friends for longer; they hurt more than we hurt; they know more Continue Reading
Take heart, future mommies, not all of us had the heart
Yesterday, I had the joy of spending time with my beautiful friend, Chloe, who has been married for over two years now. Before Bennett, I never would've let these words slip out of my mouth. Now, these questions seem to run unbridled out of my wide open trap as I just cannot imagine life without my little one. "So...when do you think you and your husband will entertain the idea of Continue Reading