If there’s one time of the year that I’m happy to be an early parent, it’s during the holidays. A time to see the lights, the Christmas trees, and the tacky blow-up reindeer through a long-forgotten perspective, and to remember when holidays weren’t about obligations and chaos. Justin and I typically aren’t fans of tradition…
Anyone planning on doing a little cyber shopping today? I hope so, because I spent way too much time putting together these exhaustive lists. So check it out. I doubt you’ll find more sales in one place: 25+ of the biggest Cyber Monday deals 20 more Cyber Monday sales that you might not immediately think…
You guys. I’m completely shot. I’ve been a little MIA because of the Thanksgiving hosting extravaganza, which turned out well. And by “well,” I mean everyone was fed and happy, and the food turned out yummy. By “well,” I don’t mean the hour of cooking…
Inspiration via Sarah Bryden-Brown; Photo via Flickr/Unraveled Design
The stats are in: Not only are less young women having babies than ever before (with 1 in 5 U.S. women having their first baby after the age of 35), but less women are having babies — period. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the national birth rate is…
Just because I’ve stopped writing about the possibilities of another baby, doesn’t mean that the thoughts have stopped. Oh, those never-ending thoughts. So while we’re in the pre-trying phase, I figured I might as well be proactive about this. I might as well not waste this precious non-pregnancy time away by obsessing over pregnancy. Because…
Fellow “early mama” Christina (who has been featured here, and who did our Cooler Music series here), let me know that today is World Prematurity Day — a day to bring awareness to the 1 in 8 babies born prematurely in the U.S. (13 million worldwide), to celebrate the babies who have made it, and…
I love the idea of advent calendars. Not so much 25 days of gift giving (because if your child is anything like mine, there’s no shortage of “stuff”), but I love the idea of filling the calendar with 25 days of activities or notes. (And, sure, maybe a little something small.) And I love the…
