Category: The Pregnant Life

I swear, this whole baby naming thing gets harder and harder every time. Since we’ve never found out the gender of our babies before they were in our arms, we’ve always had to narrow it down …

I haven’t gotten as many questions this pregnancy as I did previously, maybe I look too frazzled, aggitated or distracted for people to find the right moment, but when I do it is almost always …

You’ll constantly hear pregnant women complaining about being uncomfortable the last few weeks of their pregnancies.  The waiting for baby can be exhausting and nerve-racking and the bigger baby gets, the more physically uncomfortable late …

After what has felt like the longest pregnancy in all eternity, I have to admit that August snuck up on me!  What I expect to baby #4’s birth month is here long before we’re ready. …

I remember a friend telling me once that when she was pregnant with her daughter, a woman in the store check out line told her that her unborn daughter had sucked the beauty out of …

Around this time in my pregnancy with Doodle, I confessed that I’ve never gotten the “nesting” instinct and shared all the things I still needed to do before his arrival including painting, shopping, organizing and …

I would guess it is expected that most people these day will eventually have children.  Some of those who chose to have children will stop after one wonderful (or difficult) child.  And while every family’s reasoning …

I could totally turn this into a post about why I’m not a co-sleeper or tips for traveling overseas with young children or how much jetlag sucks. But I think instead I’ll just tell you …

Everyone wants to know these days how I’m feeling.  My budding baby belly prompts assumptions or curiosities about my physical well-being.(And trust me, people only ask because I’m pregnant), I usually say “just tired.”  I …

My girls have a Barbie doll they lovingly refer to as “Wobbly Legs” (they also had a doll they called “Wobbly Head” but she suffered an untimely decapitation by little brother and was given a …