…and 3 things every first time mom should know As a first-time mom, you do so much reading and googling. Looking up every little thing is just a right of passage into motherhood in this day and age. Is this normal? Is my baby peeing enough? The list just goes …
The 4th trimester. I had never given much thought to it you know. There’s a lot of information out there about pregnancy and birth but not much on postpartum. I was so excited for when my baby would come. Huge bonus I would not be pregnant anymore. I wrote a …
Our favorite 5 children’s books and why we chose to start reading to Malachi at such a young age. ***This post contains affiliate links. Clicking these links and making purchases provides a small compensation to me to help me keep writing and maintaining my site at no extra cost to …
My baby is 3 months old. Some days I can’t even believe. I look at him sleeping or laughing with his dad and I just can’t believe he is growing this fast. Waiting for him to get here felt like forever, the first couple weeks felt like a long time …
Surviving Pregnancy and Labor with Essential Oils Pregnancy, Labor and Essential Oils – greatest thing ever. I’m sure by this point lots of you have heard lots about essential oil, either from friends or coming across them at markets (if you do that kind of thing) or even from me. …
Growing up family vacations was my favorite. Making memories, discovering the world with mom and dad by our sides (cheesy, I know). Most kids as they grow up don’t enjoy family vacations as much because who wants to hang out with mom and dad. Other families aren’t able to do …
Dear Lord, Thank you for the precious gift of being this little boy’s mom. I thank you for creating him and choosing me to be his mom. I thank you for helping me to grow and nurture him before he his was born and now that he is born that …
Baby Boy Woodland Nursery Decorating the nursery was the only thing keeping me sane in the last months of pregnancy. We went with a baby boy woodland nursery. Full with animals, mountains and wood accents. I decorated his nursery to have meaning and to show him things that he needs …
Postpartum and the First 5 Weeks with a Newborn Is it just me or does no one really talk about what life after pregnancy and delivery is like? You’re recovering, you have a new baby, there is a new dynamic to your relationship. So many things changed in a matter …
Malachi’s Birth Story My beautiful baby boy was born May 2nd, 2018. He was 7 lbs 14 oz and was 20.5 inches long, and his birth story is beautiful. He is our first baby, and labor was by far the hardest, most insane thing I have ever experienced. They say …
