I CANNOT BELIEVE CHARLIE IS 1 MONTH OLD! (Actually he’s 6 weeks now haha!) It’s actually wild. He has changed so much this month! I wrote monthly updates each month during Hudson’s first year, and it was really fun to connect with other mamas whose babies are the same age through it. I wanted to do the same for Charlie, just to have something to…
Happy April! March flew by for me, because of being in that newborn haze during month 1, but I know it was extremely slow and difficult for a lot of people because of quarantining, and the pandemic. It’s definitely a weird time right now, and I’ll write a blog post more in-detail about how it has effected us while having a new baby…
I love to write, I always have since I was a little girl, but for some reason for this birth story I just watch the cursor blink, and don’t know where to begin. Birth stories are hard to digest, harder to put into writing and even though they replay in our heads over and over again for the rest of our lives, the details seem…
Hi there! I hope everyone is holding up okay in these wild times. I took to Stories to share my first two weeks postpartum, day by day, and I had a lot of requests to create an entire blog post about my first two weeks, things I did, things I’ve learned having gone through this before, etc. etc. I want to first start out by…
HI EVERYONE!!! It has been just the CRAZIEST 2 weeks since I last posted. Most of what has happened nobody could have predicted, and it’s been a really weird time to be hormonal and with a newborn, but I’ve been trying to embrace this time to slowdown and bond as a family of four. Matt has no work on the horizon, so he has been…
I actually cannot remember if I ever created a post about my baby registry when I had Hudson, but it felt like this one was long overdue. I’m not going to lie, it took a LONG time to piece together everything we bought for the baby (along with a lot of things we previously owned) but this is a comprehensive list of all of it!…
“Baby number two” is such a hot button topic. I almost feel like I am beating a dead horse by writing this, because I’ve talked about this topic SO MANY TIMES, including in a video explaining why we didn’t rush into having a second baby, this post and this one, but I’ve had a lot of moms lately asking how we knew we were ready,…
I am SO SO excited to finally share baby #2 nursery! If you missed Hudson’s reveal back in the day, you can see it here. I found connecting to baby 2 during pregnancy to be much more difficult, mostly because I’m always so focused on Hudson! BUT, planning his nursery gave me the ability to focus on him, and creating a space that he and…
Never did I ever think I’d see myself pouring milk into my bathtub, and then getting into it. If you told me 5 years ago this would be a thing, I’d tell you that you were a liar! BUT, I’ve seen these photos around the internet, and as weird as it is, the photos come out absolutely stunning, so I figured Sea and I could…
I asked you all on instagram what kinds of baby type posts you’d be interested in seeing before I give birth (IN 6.5 WEEKS OMG!) and I got a lot of the standard ‘what’s in you hospital bag’ type questions, but I loved this question the most, and wanted to cover it first. Hindsight is always 20/20, and raising baby #1 VS baby #2 is…
Just like with pregnancy, I am constantly seeing gorgeous images of influencers breastfeeding with the sunset in the background, looking so peaceful and content. For me it was not like that at all, and for that reason I kept pretty quiet about my breastfeeding journey. To be honest, I am not sure how much of it I will share this time around either, because that’s…
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of UPPAbaby. As always, all opinions are my own. When I first had Hudson, I noticed that everyone around me was using the UPPAbaby VISTA. Maybe that sounds a bit dramatic, but I promise you in my group of mom friends, it was everybody. The thing about strollers is you make your decision on what…
It has been quite a while since I shared anything about traveling with Hudson – I shared our essentials for a flight around 18 months, and roadtrip must-haves, but it’s been over a year so things have definitely changed! We’ve recently started to travel a bit more again, because from 2 and on it felt like traveling with Hudson became way WAY easier. He understands…
HUDSON IS OFFICIALLY SLEEPING IN A BIG BOY BED!! It’s very exciting news for us over here, and I wanted to document our steps and share our journey for other mamas about to take the leap. I realized there’s a lot I didn’t think about in this process, until now in hindsight. It all started when we moved back in to our house. Hudson…
I’ll be the first to admit that before giving birth to Hudson, I was pretty focused on my body looking a certain way. I worked out around 5 days a week, and didn’t have a huge appreciation for self-love, self-care or even what my body was capable of. How could I? I didn’t even know the HALF of the incredible power the female body possesses, and…
This may be my first blog post with absolutely 0 makeup on in some photos… ever!! I wanted to be really transparent and real in these photos, and show you all what life as a momma looks like – which usually means getting Hudson up and dressed and fed before I even take one second to get to my own appearance. haha! I am sure…
The biggest thing most new parents don’t talk about is their marriage. It’s such a hush hush thing, because let’s be honest, nobody wants to put their dirty laundry on display, but having kids is tough on a relationship. Relationships and marriage ALWAYS take work, but after having kids it takes EVEN MORE WORK. Before Matt and I had Hudson, we’d spend our time in…
I’ve been wanting to write this post for a while – partially for all of you mamas out there with potty training on the brain and partially for myself to look back on if we ever have another because I know how quickly we forget this kind of tedious step as other phases come along quickly! I LOVE reading posts by other mom blogs I…
Can you believe my little fox is two? Neither can I. Well, I can, because I can’t really remember a life before him, but it also feels like i blinked and the past few years have flown by. I can remember feeling really insecure and new in this role, and of course I have days and moments where I still feel like I don’t know…
Okaaay, so Fall is still probably at least a month away weather-wise, but as Fall clothing hits the stores, I am of course SO SO excited to dress Hudson in layers, and coats! Last year he was a little under a year old, not walking or talking, and Fall was just such a different experience than it will be for him this year. I cannot…