2017 Holiday Gift Guide for Boys Age 3-7 (and up)
This post may contain affiliate links. Read full disclosure policy here Holiday shopping can be a complete nightmare for moms. Trying to find the hottest toys of the season without breaking the bank (or your sanity) can be an exhausting task. Having three boys close in age, people assume holiday gift giving for my kids is much easier since READ MORE
Top 10 Must Have Baby Items (You Probably Didn’t Register For)
This post may contain affiliate links. Read full disclosure policy here I’m not claiming to be an expert, but after three kids in five years I’ve learned a whole hell of a lot about baby gear and products! There are few products I haven’t owned, borrowed, researched, or tested in a store. My husband has accused me more than once READ MORE
The Last Few Weeks of Babyhood
It came so much faster than I expected. Having been through it twice before, I know how fast that first year goes. How quickly that tiny, squishy, helpless newborn becomes a walking, talking, tantrum throwing little person. A toddler. But it’s almost here. My third, and most likely last baby turned 11 months old today. I posed him in his READ MORE
My Breastfeeding Journey (And Why I Decided to do a Breastfeeding Photo Shoot)
Before I had babies, I never thought of myself being a breastfeeding mom. None of the women in my immediate family breastfed. Not my mom, grandmother, aunt, etc. I don’t think I ever even saw a woman nursing a baby until I was much older, and I remember a lot of the adults around me talking badly about her, saying READ MORE
Thirty Something
Last week, I turned thirty four. T H I R T Y F O U R. Ouch. When I was a kid I dreaded turning thirty. I saw thirty as being SOOOOO OLD. Like, the end of the line kind of old. I have vivid memories of my mom’s thirtieth birthday. Being a naive five year old I was so READ MORE
Stop Devaluing My Sons
This past weekend we took our monthly family pilgrimage to Costco. My husband had the two older boys in the shopping cart and I was pushing the baby in the stroller so we could divide and conquer. My husband was about 10 feet ahead of me when a woman started loudly screaming and waving at me from across a large READ MORE
Welcome To Our Crazy Life!
My life as a mom is nothing like I pictured it to be. For starters, coming from a very long line of girls on both sides of my family, it honestly never crossed my mind that I would find myself a mom of three boys! But thats’s just the tip of the iceberg. Life just seems to have a crazy READ MORE