I’ve been busy writing about style, products and pregnancy over at Babble.com. Here are some of my faves:

• These are classics for a reason.
• Expert beauty tips via Twitter.
• You can never have too much polka dots.
• Easter dresses on a budget.
• This color is everywhere this year.
• Whether you have boys or girls, everyone will love these new toys.
• 25 beauty buys under $10.
• Crafty? You need to check these out.
• My very specific reasons for choosing an unmedicated labor.
• If you love baby naming, you’ll love these blogs.
• Must-see new baby products!
• All of these are under $50!
• An easy way to go natural with your Spring Cleaning.
• Creative ways to track your pregnancy.

After many months (years?) of trial and error, I’ve finally worked out a consistent schedule that’s working well for me. Transitioning from an office setting to a work-at-home lifestyle has been an utter dream, yet balancing it all has been…tricky. Right now I’m alternating nights of 4-hour sleep and 9-hour sleep (give or take a toddler’s wake-up call) and it seems to balance out. I also have a solid 6-hour chunk of working hours three days a week, with specific time scheduled in for chores. So fingers crossed! I’ve already been more productive and organized than I’ve been in a long time. (And being a by-the-books Virgo, that’s basically everything.)

Next step: Scheduling in some exercise. Baby steps.

Have a relaxing weekend, everyone!

More frequently than you’d probably believe, Noah and I have full-out, no-joke dance parties — jumping, wiggling, and shimmying in the center room of our apartment, which we’ve made into a play room/office/dance floor. I put on one of my Pandora stations, while Noah dictates “Faster, mommy! I need a faster song!”

But occasionally when a slow song comes on, he takes my hands as we spin around, and I listen to him laugh that gut-belly laugh that radiates happiness, until the birds are laughing and the leaves are dancing and people in airplanes are smiling and have no idea why. The kind of laugh that forces my brain to crawl out of my eye sockets, climb down my face, and shake my body like a hysterical mother — I need to remember this! I need to soak up every single second of this!

That kind of laugh.

For a long time Noah’s favorite song to dance to was Katy Perry’s Last Friday Night — so much that I even downloaded the song for him. At first I thought that made me a good mom, to spend my money downloading a song that made him so happy, but then, after listening to the lyrics 3 bagillion times, I realized that probably the exact opposite is true. Yet catchy it is.

Now he prefers to boogie to this Kimbra tune with a similarly catchy melody. (I think she’s from New Zealand, and she’s pretty rad.) I have to admit, when you birth a child who comes out singing show tunes and Disney songs, sometimes a pop-y break is much needed.

Yes, I see the irony in posting this song to a group of women who have, in fact, settled down at an age that I can only imagine would horrify Kimbra. But nonetheless, we can still rock out to it.

Happy dancing!