Motherhood

Watching your baby go through the pain of teething is rough. Some babies are lucky, and just wake up with teeth, no prior fussiness. For others, teething is an excruciating period full of screaming and sleepless nights. Most babies, fall somewhere on this spectrum. Sometimes, I feel like Bastian came out of the womb teething. […]

And just like that, Bastian’s first Christmas has come and gone, and his first birthday is starting to creep up on us. I’ve very prematurely began planning his birthday party and subsequently being sad that my little baby is closer to a toddler than a newborn. How is it that the days are so long, […]

I don’t think you can fully understand mom guilt, until/unless you’re actually a mom. How hard can it really be to just take a shower? To just leave your kids with a babysitter? To watch the tv show that you wanted to? The truth is, mom guilt is going to find ways to seep in […]

I’ve talked a lot about our experience with Baby Led Weaning before, here on the blog. We have loved getting to introduce new foods to Bastian. And he has absolutely thrived and loved eating solids over these last four months since we started BLW. The way that we feed him is actually one of the […]

This post was due an entire week ago. But the holidays are truly way more busy and stressful than I ever anticipate. Especially with a baby around this year. I distinctly remember this time last year, thinking about our first Christmas with Bastian. And it was finally here! So so SO many things have happened […]

I have always voiced my opinions about puppy mills and dog shelters. Our first dog that Seth and I got together, was from the Utah Humane Society. Thunder passed a few weeks ago, you can read my blog post about him and his life here. He was an old dog when we got him, about […]

Sometimes, nap time feels more like a battle than the beginning of the peaceful slumber that it’s supposed to be. The transition from newborn sleep habits to, well, normal sleep habits came as a surprise to us. During the first few months of Bastian’s life, we adopted a form of attachment parenting. We cuddled and […]

I knew I wanted to get Seth a dog for his birthday. Before we got married the previous month, we’d decided we wanted to get a dog as soon as possible. Specifically, I wanted a pitbull. My family dog was a pitbull, and I had grown so close to him. Originally, we wanted a puppy. […]