Category: A Mommy’s Life

By now, all the things that happen during the first part of pregnancy are pretty common knowledge.  The morning sickness, the exhaustion, the heightened sense of smell, the constant peeing… So I’d like to take …

A lot of interesting reads have come across my computer screen the past week, prompting me to want to start a “Thoughts for Thursday” series.  I don’t know that it will be a weekly thing …

Early pregnancy should look like this: A glowing, excited mommy (though maybe with a better photographer…me on Christmas morning when I was about 14 weeks with Honeybun) But unfortunately, most women spend those first few …

About a week before Christmas, I had a weird encounter.  One afternoon as I sat on the couch, Sugarplum came up to me, cupped her hands around her mouth, bent down by my stomach and …

I stopped watching the local news shortly after we returned to South Florida. Hubby still sometimes watches and it’s just a run down of horrible things: double shooting, armed robbery, fatal shooting, fatal car accident, …

A this year comes to a close and I take the time to refelct on the past 12 months, I feel somewhat surprised to be able to smile. This year has definitely not been the …

Honeybun has always been an excellent sleeper (we have about a billion baby pictures to prove it!)  She slept through the night at 9 weeks old (9 pm to 6 am) and aside from a …

Well, another Christmas has come and gone successfully.  The kids are happy with their spread of new treasures and now we get to spend the day playing with all our new toys after spending yesterday …

Whenever I share tips for traveling with young children, my number one suggestion is almost always to do everything you can to get them to sleep by traveling during nap/night-time, using car seats on the …

I was recently featured in an article on Babble.com in an article on Kourtney Kardashian’s statement about not being comfortable with homebirth.  I was quoted as the only pro-homebirth mommy and while I’m okay with that, …