When I first made the decision to step back from working as much as I was and spend most of my time home with Evelyn, my biggest fear was figuring out what we were going to do all day. We had spent her infant months together at my office for the most part, which was…
Category: parenting
It occurs to me that although I write about a lot of things in life on my blog, there are also a lot of things I don’t write about. And while I hadn’t written about this one, it occurred to me that I probably should since it is kind of a major life change. I…
Back when Evelyn was just a little bitty baby, I did a brief product roundup of some of our favorite things for the first three months (some of them are still things we use and love today). I had every intention of coming back at six months with an update of things we love,…
It was one year ago tonight that I got into bed and felt the first contractions. I laid there for an hour, timing them and wondering if it was really it, because they didn’t hurt as terribly as I expected. I woke Gerrit up and we watched Late Night with Seth Myers (which we never…
I started worrying years ago about how my life was going to change once I was a mother. I am such a routine person, and when we lived in Houston and got our cat I remember having my mornings so thrown off because now I had this hyper little kitten who I was having to…