Welcoming Arthur into the world was an remarkable experience in itself. What was even crazier was the month following his birth...
Coming Home To Chaos: Arthur’s Homecoming
Category: motherhood
Week’s-Long Prodromal Labor: William’s Birth Story
The doctors and nurses were calling it a dream-delivery, from how fast and easy everything went. I found it a little too close for comfort...
Adding a Third Child: Arthur’s Birth Story
There's no way they'd turn away a lady past her due date. This birth wasn't a scary birth, but it was our scariest birth experience.
4 Steps to Get Involved in your Community
One of the best parts of living in a small town has got to be the ease to get involved in everything. I'm a service-driven kind of gal, it's totally my love language. Getting involved and helping our community is so important to me as a hobby, but also as a mom trying to raise my babies into the young men I hope that they become!
DIY Fine Motor Latch Board for Toddlers
My youngest toddler is the epitome of "give a kid a toy and they play with the box". Like, seriously. He has hardly any actual toys that he continually enjoys playing with. His favorite "toys" are remotes, phones, light switches, door knobs, car keys, and his sound machine.
Speech At Home: The W Sound
Just trying to help encourage other moms with ideas, showing you that they are simple, easy, and totally manageable to work on if you might have a toddler with a speech delay, sensory processing disorder, or maybe just want to work on speech early!
Our Big Announcement!
We are awaiting our third baby to arrive sometime in July 2017 and are so excited! My two boys are only 17 months apart, and the age gap is a dream. Complicated at first, now they are into the same toys, favorites, foods, clothes, everything. A built in best friend! Our third will be around 20+ months from our second, hopefully sharing all of the same close-in-age benefits, too.
Firefighter Family Halloween Costume
Making matching family Halloween costumes is one of those trophies for toddler moms. We don't get sleep, warm meals, or much silence, but our kids aren't "too cool" to match their parents on Halloween yet! Over planning in my natural fashion, I had plans for our entire family to be Ninja Turtles for the majority [...]
Speech Therapy At Home: The M Sound
I'm not a speech therapist, and these activities are recommended to me by our speech therapist, curated from Dian Baker and Nancy Caleffe-Schenck's h.o.p.e. pamphlet, along with a mix of other ideas I've stumbled upon.