What to Pack When Traveling with an Infant: our travel checklist Soon after deciding the details of our vacation, I started to become anxious about how I was going to pack for my daughter and myself to be away from home for five days!! I was traveling solo with Brie, so I needed to make …
The Key to Planning a Budget Friendly Family Vacation Keyona and I decided that we were going to get serious about this self-care thing and got the bright idea that we were going to take a girls only trip –with two 10 month olds. We wanted it to be a budget friendly family vacation. Our …
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Maternity leave was awesome. I love my job and I love what I do but I’ve never been one to turn down a day off! Maternity leave was awesome. Minus the crying baby, constant nursing, leaky boobs, no sleep, and frequent blow outs. I loved it. I did not want to go back to work. …
Choosing a baby registry is fun! I remember being excited about completing my baby registry. There are so many cool gadgets that are made for babies, it is really difficult to know exactly what you will need after you baby is born. How do you choose what goes on your baby registry? I remember joking …
When do you get time for mom? My daughter is now 5 months and 1 day old. I’m sitting in front of the TV, alone, and half a bottle of wine gone realizing that its been a long time. This is the first time that I have been able to sit and do for me …
Our baby girl is our rainbow baby. For those who are not familiar, a rainbow baby is the baby who is born after the loss of another child, in our case, a miscarriage. It’s said that 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage, and everyone deals with it differently. It came a point in my …
This post contains affiliate links. For more details, view our disclosure. Scared and excited! What does it feel like to be pregnant? As a little girl I remember hearing my Great-Grandmother say that when a woman is with child, she is straddling the line between life and death. I didn’t really understand what she meant at …
I decided very early on in my pregnancy that I wanted to breastfeed. I wanted Brie to have the best possible nutrients and financially it just made sense to me. (Let me just say I believe that fed is best and I am not here to judge anyone on how they choose to feed their …
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This post contains affiliate links. Please read our disclosure. What are the must have baby items? I went to Babies R Us on Saturday to see what deals I could find for my baby. All I found were things for newborns. I remembered my cousin is due in July and called to ask her what …
My friends like to call me a paranoid mother, but to me that has such a negative connotation. I’d like to think of myself as the typical concerned new mother, who may be just a touch paranoid. Here’s the thing: before now, I’ve never been responsible for anyone but myself. I’m an only child so …
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