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And Then There Were Five: Lyla Grace’s Birth Story

I apologize in advance for the excruciating detail in this post; I write so I can remember, and if I’ve learned anything about giving birth, it’s that I swap brain cells for newborns and writing everything down is no longer a luxury, but necessity. And here we go… Palm Sunday found us at the 8 […]

Don’t Poop On Your Princesses

It has been two months since my almost-three-year-old was introduced to Huggies Pull-Ups, and while I can’t say she is 100% potty trained, we have made incredible strides in the bathroom using department. Before Pull-Ups: Me: Do you want to use the potty? Ella: No. Me: But if you pee on the potty, […]

#NakedMoms: Motherhood & Reinvention

When I was a freshman in high school, my parents went away on a week-long cruise. They left my grandmain charge of my brother and me, and sailed on their merry way. Gram wasn’t about to climb the steps to our second story where my bedroom was, so I knew that any, uh, frowned upon […]

What Does One Billion Look Like?

We used to be tight. Close-knit. We understood one another. And then I got to high school and everything changed. There was a distance between us, unspoken but obvious. I tried to pretend like nothing was wrong, but night after night, I cried to my dad that I just didn’t understand why things had to […]

Oversharing: I Peed My Pants At Wal-Mart and Other Tales of Mommy Incontinence

“If peeing your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis.” –Old Farm Lady on Billy Madison I heart Sarah because she regularly Overshares on her blog The Sadder But Wiser Girl, which is where today’s post was first published. Sarah’s inability to control her bladder and her willingness to then write about it make her […]

Preparing the “Big” Kids for D-Day

When my daughter was born, my son wasn’t yet 2-years-old. He was basically clueless when it came to my big belly, and as far as he was concerned, his special sleepover at Grandma and Pap’s the night I gave birth to his sister, was just that: a sleepover. The first few months were a bit […]

The Walk of Shame

Yesterday around 11am, I started to feel…funny. Lower back pains, cramping in my belly–you know, in labor kind of funny. I put my husband on alert at work and went about the rest of my day as normal: dropped the boy off at pre-school, got the girl down for her nap, and settled in at […]

I Got a Spray Tan. With My Mother.

Did you know that spray tans are now done one-on-one? Like, the days of you being alone in a shower-esque room with nozzles squirting you are gone. In their place is a perky, blonde 20-something who strips you down to your glory and asks you to rearrange your thigh fat for optimal spraying. Oh, I’m […]

Oversharing: And That Was All.

It has been a loooong time since I’ve written something just for fun, and today is the day we get back to our roots. Back to our dysfunctionally fun Oversharing roots. Granted, I didn’t write today’s post, Jen from Real Life Parenting did, but it’s a story that could have just as easily happened to […]

Explaining Fire Safety To Your Sensitive Kid

Reddish orange tongues licked the black sky. The smoke, a thick blanket of suffocation. Sirens and lights, people gathering, the news report the following day. It happened so quickly. It could have been our house, but it wasn’t. This time. An older gentleman with kind eyes used to ride a golf cart through our neighborhood […]