by Crystal Paterson | Jan 4, 2021 | Home, Motherhood
I babysat a lot as a teenager and as a young adult. As one of the youngest cousins, I had a lot of baby second cousins growing up. I worked as a nanny, and a child care educator at a daycare. One thing all these things taught me, kids usually nap until they are 3-4...
by Crystal Paterson | Oct 7, 2020 | Home, Life, Motherhood
I have to start this off by addressing all the things others say about screens and TV and the research. I get it. It’s not the greatest choice of things to expose your child too. “It can melt their brains.” It has bad stuff. I mean the list can go...
by Crystal Paterson | Sep 2, 2020 | Life, Motherhood
With summer coming to end I finally got around to putting together a few of Mal’s cute outfits from Carters and Osh Kosh BGosh. A few good toddler boy outfits and we were golden for the summer. Most of them are on...
by Crystal Paterson | Aug 6, 2020 | Life, Motherhood
Support. The only thing that should be associated when someone shares their breastfeeding journey. I think it’s so important to know that your motherhood journey is yours. What other people do or say doesn’t apply to you or your journey. You breastfeed 3 months vs...
by Crystal Paterson | Jul 21, 2020 | Life, Motherhood
As you may have read recently, or seen on my social media, that we lost our son May 2020. I was 16 weeks pregnant when we lost our sweet boy. You can read about his birth and loss story HERE. Music has many different meanings and feelings attached. This grief playlist...
by Crystal Paterson | Jul 20, 2020 | Life, Motherhood
May 10th started like any other. Only today was Mother’s Days and I had just hit 16 weeks pregnant with our little bean. As the day went on, I started to feel off. I had gone to the bathroom, and something was wrong. So we rushed to the hospital because I could...