For When She Wakes…She Will Lead?

You know, looking back, I never really saw myself having children. Perhaps it was because I was always told by doctors that I would never be able to have children or maybe it was because I was frightened of bringing a kid into this crazy world we live in. And the times I did think…

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Reasons my Toddler Has Hated Me This Week

We are only a week into the “Treacherous Threes,” as my 10 year old step-daughter calls it, but I am already feeling the shift from what I thought was the “Worst it can get 2’s” to “It will get worse 3’s.” Talk about walking on eggshells, I can’t do anything without totally ticking Arabella off…

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Who Said Parenting Was Easy?

How many of you headed into parenting with blinders on? I did. Moms/Dads how many of you played ‘house’ when you were little? I’m not sure about you, but my babies were sooo easy to take care of when I was young. And those ‘egg babies’ we had in middle school? Pfffft, what kind of…

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Reality Check

Rewind two days, it’s 4 am and baby girl has woken up for a feeding.  During these hours, my husband and I patter around the house, one making a bottle and one changing the babe; we hardly speak two words to eachother, as we’re both too exhausted.  Generally, it’s a cordial “I’ll start warming the…

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