Son Shine State of Mind

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

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

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

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

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