Aubrey and I finished our last week of breastfeeding recently. And man, it involved all kinds of feels. It is so difficult to effectively articulate my love/hate relationship with breastfeeding. It has held some of the most special, magical, beautiful moments, but it has also held some gut wrenching, helpless sobbing, emotionally painful times asRead more
I’ve written a couple of posts about traveling with an infant. The first being a few quick lessons we learned when traveling with a then 5.5 week old baby, the second when Aubrey and I flew all the way home from Turkey (30 hours each way total travel time) when she was just 2 monthsRead more
Since we reached the end of the Blankenship Euro Trip, and the beginning of the Jamison trip, I thought it might be a good time to take a break from the travel talk and switch to my other favorite subject at the moment…baby stuff! I’ve tried to incorporate a few Montessori ideas into Aubrey’s playtime.Read more
I’m going to let you in on a dirty little secret of mine. One that I hate to admit with every fiber of my being, but sometimes the truth hurts. As much as I love the idea of natural products, and medicine free remedies 8 times out of 10 (and maybe even closer to 9)Read more
Interesting fact. Two days after Aubrey was born Will looked up at me as he hovered over our new little smush, and with wide excited eyes proclaimed, “I want more babies. I know I never wanted babies, but this makes me want more babies.” I thought surely, once the newness wore off a little, andRead more
This past Sunday it was my first Mother’s Day as well as my 30th birthday. But instead of wallowing in misery over the passing of another year, we packed up our things and headed to our secret beach spot. I call this our secret beach spot, but really anyone could find it by looking upRead more
I’m not sure if many of you knew this, but I once wrote for a parenting magazine. Being about a year out from actually deciding to try our hand at parenting, it was a great way to learn about the various topics top of mind for the modern parent. One being baby led weaning (BLW).Read more
I’ve meant to take pictures every month as Aubrey grows, but like anything else in life, time gets away from you before you realize it. So, even though she was still a little over a week shy of being officially 6 months, I jumped at the chance to snap some pictures of my sweet girl.Read more
After my last post about breastfeeding, I felt as if I owed you guys a followup. Sometimes as much as I hate to admit it, the real knowledge of things only comes after you have endured the difficulties that make learning necessary. If things were always easy, we might never understand their true value. WeRead more
After writing this, I realized that it paints breastfeeding in a very negative light…which is that last thing breastfeeding and breastfeeding mothers need. My intention was not that, but rather to try to explain to those on the outside of this breastfeeding world the struggles breastfeeding moms face, and why support and understanding is soRead more