If you follow along on Facebook, you know that Noah only wants a Wizard of Oz snow globe for Christmas — but his snow globe obsession goes further. He also wants everyone in his life to have a snow globe, which is where we got crafty. I made the above snow globe of his favorite…
Kim was actually in my graduating high school class, and she’s one of the very few who started a family as early as I did — having her daughter mere months after I had Noah. We were both nice, well-behaved girls — not “the type” that you’d expect to be a stereotypical young mom —…
There’s been a lot of talk lately about age + fertility (here and elsewhere), and this recent post by fellow “early mama” Amber on Strollerderby got me thinking: How will we approach this issue with our daughters and granddaughters?
If you’re not following on Facebook (why aren’t you following on Facebook?), you probably missed this big giveaway going on right now. Check it out! And enter! It’s the perfect giveaway for new, modern, cooler-than-average parents. (P.S.: If you love the baby monitor — and you will — you can get an exclusive 25% off…
Even though I sent out paper holiday cards this year (which is so not my thing, you guys — so adult!), and even though I spent a lot of time searching for my favorite photo cards for Babble.com, I have a little secret:
The first Christmas tree Justin and I had ended up without any pine needles because we never watered it. And I’m pretty sure we were two light bulbs away to causing a fire. For the next Christmas, we decided to chop one down from a local farm — so cute and romantic-like — and we…
A reader asked me to pass on a question to the rest of the Early Mama community. Tiffanie, who has a 6-month-old baby, is struggling to eat as healthy as she’d like without going over her budget. She tries to buy organic, and she’s part of a CSA (community shared agriculture), where she receives local,…
Todays Q+A comes from a young woman who lives in New York City — a city with a large number of 20-something singles, where most first-time moms are in their 30s or beyond. Yet she had no idea that young motherhood can be isolating or unique until reading Early Mama. For her, younger motherhood is…
