Who in the hell let me buy so many newborn-sized clothes?! No, really. What made me think I needed so many tiny onesies for my 8 pounder? Did she even wear these? Did I really buy all of this? Was I on drugs? We’re idiots. Couldn’t we at least have tried to have kids in the same season?! Fleece sleepers aren’t going…
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Maybe it’s just me, but this second baby thing is going WAY more smoothly than my first. The pregnancy is flying by, and the preparations we’re making for Baby C2’s arrival are extremely minimal. In fact, most of our preparing involves our oldest – not the new addition. Dorothy’s slightly high maintenance. #secondchildproblems, for real. Sorry, C2. Since I’m almost to…
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How Far Along? 24 weeks Baby Stats: Baby is the size of a cantaloupe, or about 1 pound 4 ounces. Weight Gain: 11 pounds (up 5 pounds since last month). For 23 weeks, I just wasn’t hungry. It wasn’t really an aversion, but more like nothing sounded good. In the last week though, I’m starving all the time. So basically the baby weight is about…
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TGI… M? While everyone else had romantic and relaxing Valentine’s Day weekends, I spent the extended holiday leading one of my color guards to their first WGI Winds regional competition in Dayton, Ohio. That’s 27 high school students… for nearly two straight days… three hours from home… with a 5 a.m. call time… and two full performances… …while 6 months pregnant. I spent my weekend…
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Please be a phase. My lovely two-year-old daughter has not napped… in nearly two weeks. She just stopped. Cold turkey. Done. Forget the 2-3 hours I have come to count on to get any sort of work done. Life, as I knew it, is over. Please, please be a phase. I still try my best, every single day. I put…
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