Our First Flight Post-Pandemic

Desperate for Travel Without getting too much into our thoughts and feelings about COVID, I do want to share our first trip since the pandemic started. My husband and I have always been big tra...

Sleeping Like a Baby - Sleep Solutions

Planning vs Reality With our first baby, I had it all planned out. I mean, before we have our first kids we have it ALL planned out. Right? What they will eat. Where they will sleep. What kind ...

The Reality of Breastfeeding

I had been a nurse for a few years before starting my position on the Maternity Unit.  Other than clinicals years ago, this area was pretty foreign to me since I wasn’t a mother at that time. I wa...

One Year Later - Parenting, Small Business, and Covid

A Time of Uncertainty March 13, 2020. That was the day I picked my kids up at school for a two-week break so that the school could be deep cleaned and we’d wait for Covid to subside. One year...

How I Chose My Baby Registry Must-Haves

August 6th, 2020, I remember that day like it was yesterday. It was the day I found out I was pregnant with my first little blessing. Once the fact that I was having a baby sunk in, the realizatio...

9 Gentle Parenting Reminders for When You're Feeling Overwhelmed

Being a parent can feel overwhelming and a bit much sometimes, and rightfully so. You have people to take care of, additional responsibilities, schedules and of course, self care to think about. I...

10 Snowy Day Activities Outside

We’re in the mist of winter up here and February break will be here before you know it. We all know it’s easy to stay inside, where it’s cozy and warm.  But things can get pretty tense when everyo...

Our Second Pregnancy; a story of miscarriage.

We found out we were pregnant with our second baby on Thanksgiving morning in 2018, after just a couple months of trying.  I will never forget this morning.  Aria, who had just turned two, was snu...

Thank you, 2020.

Feeling blessed during a time of uncertainty.  2020, the year that no one will ever forget, the year that threw us all for a loop in many different ways, some much more severe than others, but ...

The mental load of Covid. A mom’s perspective.

Today was the day that the mental burden of Covid outweighed the physical fear.  They tell you that parenting is hard. It is. The infant stage, the toddler stage, the little kid stage and I pre...