So, that was the longest blog drought ever. I’ve never gone a full month without posting, but somehow, that’s what has happened. I am in a serious rut with this blog, my little space on the world wide web. I’m honestly struggling with it. Over the past several weeks, I have—on more than one occasion—thought […]

I haven’t really liked my hair in a long time. It had to have been at least before getting pregnant with Vivienne. During pregnancy, I kind of just let it go, and then afterward… well, I lost damn near all of it during postpartum shedding. It was so bad that I seriously had bald spots […]

Recently, I’ve seen comments on Facebook birth announcements that many people might just pass right over:

“Congratulations! Now you have the perfect family.”

“He’s beautiful! You’re done now, right? You have the perfect family!”

Let’s back up for a second. In case you’re wondering:

perfect family
[pur-fikt fam-uh-lee]

noun
1. a family consisting […]

Talk to me about swing sets. Do you have one? Do your kids play on it regularly? Do you like having it? Do you hate it?

We’re getting ready to put down on a deposit on a play set for our backyard. It’s way more than we ever thought we’d be paying for a swing […]

I have been receiving a lot of comment spam on my blog.

I have always received spam comments, but for some reason, the frequency had really picked up in intensity the last few weeks. I have comment moderation turned on, so I was always able to mark them as spam—so they’d never appear on my […]