As I sit here typing, my hair is frizzy and my makeup is smudged. I don’t look like a perfect mom. I don’t belong on Instagram.
Category: Motherhood
What your baby really wants for Christmas
This past week, Grandma has been putting together a list of items to get my son for Christmas. It goes like this: Shoe laces. Buckets. Brooms. Magnets. Tupperware containers. Brightly colored toys are right up at the top of her list of items not to get him. We bought him rainbow colored blocks, bright animal magnets, and a giant blue ball, but he’s hardly interested. Why on earth would he want thetell me the rest!
Navigating airports and airplanes with a toddler: it’s a nightmare
Last week I had these two great posts on the 14 plane rides I took with my newborn and tips and tricks for traveling (especially alone) with a baby. I explained why traveling with a baby is a fantastic idea but I made sure to be clear that traveling with a toddler was unexplored territory because somehow I knew my trip would turn out the way it did. The poststell me the rest!
Tips for traveling with a baby (especially alone) and why it’s a fantastic idea
Mamas considering this, you’re not crazy…
Three countries by three weeks old: I’m not crazy for traveling with my baby
Check out part two of this post, Tips for traveling with a baby (especially alone) and why it’s a fantastic idea here! Let me tell you the story of a crazy, very young and very new mom who decided it would be a good idea to take her nine-day-old babe on a weekend trip from California to Texas. By herself. She had never traveled with a child, let alone an infant, andtell me the rest!
Ignorance about chemicals in my home was easier but hardly bliss: four tips to get rid of the ick
There is no denying it–we are in the age of information. Information everywhere on what to do and what not to do and how and why to do it. As a mama, this is both empowering and a huge headache. We can no longer do life the way we were raised or the way we’ve always done it and have that guarantee that it’s the very best for our familytell me the rest!
Are our kids really watching us?
When my son was about six months old, I decided it was about time to teach him sign language. He couldn’t communicate with words and I don’t speak screaming baby so we needed to find a new system. For weeks, I would touch my fingers together trying to teach him “more”. I would fold my hands under my head when it was time for him to sleep. I would opentell me the rest!
Mothering: the job you can’t quit
Every Saturday morning, we have a tradition: My husband makes a fancy-shmancy breakfast and watches the baby while I get to shower in peace and then spend time alone until it’s time to eat, and it’s fabulous. Last Saturday, something came up. We didn’t get our nice breakfast, I didn’t get my alone time, and the rest of the day I was ridiculously uptight and irritable because those two precious hours on Saturday morningtell me the rest!
So yesterday I took him to the doctor…
Thursday morning was the first time we’ve ever had to take my son to a doctor. Being in the essential oils business, there’s a lot of pressure to keep my kid healthy–that’s what my product is supposed to do, isn’t it? Yes. While I believe that “there’s an oil for that” in just about every circumstance, sometimes kids need doctors. I was honestly a little scared about taking my son totell me the rest!
His daddy is missing his firsts
Right now it’s just Little Man and me at home so we’ve been hanging out all day. We chilled at Home Depot and he threw up cashews all over the moulding in my cart. He ate toilet paper. We went on an adventure to pick up snazzy homemade mugs from a local mom. He played in the toilet while I did my makeup until I realized what he was doing. Wetell me the rest!