Militant. Stringent. Uncompromising. These are all words you could use to describe our adherence to our bedtime ritual with our toddler.  And you’d better believe it when I say I do not care how bad they make us sound, because it works! (Yes, yes, as soon as I type “it works!” it’s all going to go to heck, but

We can hardly believe that another year has already come and gone.  As we reflect on 2016, we’re happy to share some of the highlights… In February we welcomed our fourth baby, Kid #4.  She was born on February 20 at 6:23 AM.  She weighed 8 pounds 8 ounces and was 20 inches long (we think.  She’s the fourth kid and we can’t quite remember details

When it comes to finding the right mom group, things can get complicated fast.  Does everyone have the same schedule as you?  Do people have childrearing opinions that fundamentally clash with yours?  Will there be snacks for the adults?  Will someone judge you if you take some of the goldfish crackers for myself if the prior question’s answer is negative?

I love Christmas cards.  Like, I LOVE them.  A lot.  They’re basically my favorite activity of the entire year.  And yes, mine are Christmas cards.  I know some people are politically correct and send Holiday Cards.  But not me.  We celebrate Christmas and we’re proud of it so I send Christmas cards.  If you’re offended by that, we’re probably not

Pumping at work sucks (pun, yes, forgive me).  These are the things I did when I pumped at work to help myself not go totally crazy.  Please share what you did or are doing right now, too.  I have a feeling all the pumping mamas out there could use all the encouragement they can get! Load up those podcasts. You’re

  We kill time.  We kill so much time.  Of course you’d think having time to kill in Europe wouldn’t be the worst-case scenario, and you’d be sort of right, but rainy cold weather and hormones that have “depression” and “drowsiness” in the small print add up to more quiet reading in bed than anything else.  I felt waves of

Everyone knows that having a baby changes things in your life.  There’s really no debating that.  It can be odd, however, when you think about exactly what things changed when the baby came along.  There are some major changes that everyone sees coming – you love the baby more than you even imagined possible, you never get to sleep, you

I don’t believe in engaging in the Mommy Wars.  At all levels I think they’re awful.  I truly believe that moms are all doing the very best that they can and that we should be working harder at supporting one another, instead of judging and tearing each other down.  I’ve always been a working mom.  There was a brief time,

Cue the shock and outrage that Target is already full of Christmas decorations and the fact that I saw the Starbucks Thanksgiving Blend available the week before Halloween and then watched it get switched over to the Christmas Blend the first week of November…ahh yes, it’s the most wonderful time of the year! Before you settle down to create a

So you want to take your tot to the library!  Yay!  Librarians love that.  I’m one of them, and I’m not lying when I say sometimes I wake up and think, ‘People are gonna to come to the library today! Yay!’  We librarians really love you. But maybe you’re scared.  Maybe you’re worried that things will go badly.  After all,