On Saturday, we spent the day traveling home from Colorado. We finally got home and were getting ready to go to bed at 11pm when we had a horrible scare. Jackson ran away from us when we were getting ready to brush his teeth. He hit a slick spot on our hardwood floors and fell,… Read Full Post

Sidney’s new nickname is Wheezer (except here in Rhode Island you have to pronounce it “wheeze-ah”. The past couple of times she has gotten Jackson’s cold she has turned into a wheezing machine. I took her to the doctor on the 16th when she was just starting out with this mess. We saw a different… Read Full Post

Dear Sidney, You turned 3 months old a few days ago, so I wanted to write you a letter and pray that it freezes time just a little bit by giving you a snap shot of what you were like at only 100 days old. We feel like you’ve been with our family forever while… Read Full Post

As I logged into my Facebook this morning, cup of coffee in hand, I saw a post from Scary Mommy at the top of my feed. She is one of my favorite bloggers and had a guest blogger today, a mom named Laurie Rahn, who wrote about her terrifying experience of furniture falling on her… Read Full Post

As a parent of 2 kids, 25 months and 3 months old, I’ve spent more time at doctors’ offices and hospitals since my daughter was born than the sum of my entire 31 years in existence. For example, today I woke up covered in painful hives and went to the urgent care to make sure… Read Full Post

Dear Jackson, You are already 25 months old and I haven’t had a chance to write you your 2 year letter yet! I can’t believe you’re such a big boy already. Your vocabulary is unbelievable and you pick up on new words the first time hearing them. Although you speak very quickly, you are talking… Read Full Post

I don’t get worked up very often, but reading the comments on this article on ABC News about mothers who staged a “nurse-in” at Targets across the country made my blood boil. The gist of it is a Target customer was asked to feed her baby in a fitting room when she was breastfeeding out in the… Read Full Post

Someone recently shared this YouTube video and it really touched me, so I wanted to share it with you all in case you haven’t seen it yet. It’s a compilation of real Moms and what they would tell themselves before they became a Mom for the first time. My favorites are “You’ll miss your Mom”… Read Full Post

I posted a picture of Sidney on Facebook yesterday because her brother had stuffed her swing with his trains. So cute, right?! Until one of my Mother’s friends had a little too much wine and made this comment: “This carrier looks like a vagina!” I’ll admit, she’s got a point. I wonder if Fisher Price… Read Full Post

I don’t claim to know everything about newborn babies or breastfeeding (despite what my Mom believes) but I do know what has worked for me with my two kids. For Me: My #1 favorite item to surviving the newborn phase is my iPhone. I use it while nursing in the middle of the night to… Read Full Post