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New Mom Bag
I went to visit a sweet friend of mine last week who has just had her first baby. The little pooper slept the whole time I was there (the baby; not my friend),…
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Feeding New Moms
I don’t know about y’all, but babies are every where in my world right now! It seems like everyone is either pregnant, getting ready to pop, or just had a baby. Which is…
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How to Sleep When the Baby Sleeps
Late in my pregnancy with Bean, the advice changed from how to survive my pregnancy to how to survive the first few months as a new mom. Without a doubt, the most frequent…
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Womb to Breathe
Some of the happiest times in my whole life were the two weeks at home after both my babies were born. For nine long months, we had anticipated the arrival of our first…
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The Second First Bath
This past weekend we gave Gracie her first real bath. We’ve been giving her sponge baths, but she still had her little belly button nub that hadn’t fallen out yet so we couldn’t…
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Look What We Made!
The past few days have been a whirlwind of surprises and excitement as we welcomed the early, unexpected arrival of Baby Gracie. Thank you all for your emails, comments, FB messages, and Tweets…
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Don’t Mind Me. I’m Just the Mom.
(These pictures have nothing to do with the blog post today. I just took them last night and thought they were cute. The end.) So. You know how I feel about daycare. Bean’s…
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Mommy and Me
This weekend sucked. I wish I could sugar-coat that sentence, but I just don’t have the energy. It sucked. We had friends in town to meet Beanie and, of course, this…
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A True Confession
Yesterday, my blogger friend, Whitney, announced that she has given notice at her office and will now be a stay-at-home mom. This has been Whitney’s dream. In fact, the full name…
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Mommy Brain
I have been trying to blog for two weeks now. I have more unusable drafts written than ever before. They just sit there. Unpublished. Mocking me. And why do I have these unpublished…
