Ages + Stages

On a pretty normal day last April, I was cleaning my house and listening to a podcast while I cleaned, as I so often do. In the episode, a married couple was being interviewed about their family mission statement,...

Cloth diapering was a huge jump for this laundry-hating mama. When I did decide to cloth diaper, I had a lot of questions. Funny enough, a lot of people ask me those same questions when they find out that...

Ever since my daughter was a baby, we decided to make most of our house a YES space. A YES space is a room in the house that a baby or toddler can explore independently without you ever having...

2021 is going to be a BIG year of FIRSTs and LASTs for me (and my daughter). It’s her senior year and I am seriously NOT ready. I didn’t think I was going to be so emotional but when I took...

Breastfeeding is one of my favorite things to talk about with fellow moms! Pregnant moms, moms of newborns, moms who didn’t have enough support to be successful, pretty much every mom has a story with breastfeeding. I struggled so much in...

Tonight, like every night, I checked on my baby one more time before I went to bed. I then walked to my room and noticed the picture of her on my bedside table. The picture of her on my...

Being a first-time mom and not having any clue what to pack for the hospital led me down a seemingly never-ending rabbit hole of blog posts. There were so many contradicting posts in relation to certain items.  So, while it’s...

Whether you’re heading to the beach or staying inside playing with kinetic sand, summer is a wonderful time to snuggle up with your toddler and read books! At my house, we love to read seasonally, so here are twelve...

School is out for the summer, and I'm so proud of my little guy for finishing his first year of kindergarten. But I'm sad because this will be the first summer since he's been born that I'm a working mom,...

My LAST baby just graduated Kindergarten! It hit me today that I will NEVER have a Kindergartener again in our house. She knows her ABCs now, she can count like a pro all the way to 120. She is starting...