baby’s first foods: tips and advice

This baby’s first foods post is in collaboration with Smart & Final and their new Sun Harvest baby food. All opinions are my own as a mother of six. Keep in mind I am not a medical or nutritional expert. Baby girl has been eating solid foods for about a month now and I can’t […]
choose your own adventure at Quarry Park

Remember those Choose Your Own Adventure books from when you were a kid? You’d read through a story and once you reached a certain point you’d have to make the choice of which way the story would go. Well, when’s the last time your family had a real-life adventure? One where you got to choose […]
fun and different ideas for Halloween at home

Happy first day of fall! I think we can all agree that 2020 has been a year like no other. Definitely not all bad, just different. Lots of our normal activities and events have been canceled or postponed And I know some of us have stronger feelings than others. That’s not what this post is […]
how we know we’re done having kids

This is how we know we’re done having kids. And boy, this has been a hard post to write. Getting my thoughts somewhat organized and down on paper has been months in the making—since before baby girl was even born. Now that baby girl is almost five months old I thought it was about time […]
epidurals: why I don’t get them and what I do instead

At the beginning of my third trimester we played “Two Truths and A Lie” over on Instagram. I always like playing that with y’all because it’s fun to see what people think. But this particular edition led to a really interesting discussion on epidurals when I revealed that I’d never had one. Now that baby […]