Recently I started “Must Have Mondays,” which features products, web sites or anything that is making my life a little easier or a little more fabulous. This week’s choice is great when you need to scribble down an address, idea or anything that you just need to put on paper. I spotted this at Barnes [...]
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Jackson and I will be visiting family soon, and we are preparing to be gone for several weeks. Since we have to bring our yellow lab, Juneau, with us in the car, packing light is a necessity. So this has me thinking…what must I bring for an extended stay for mom and baby? If you’re [...]
Jackson is getting just big enough that we needed to upgrade his carrier. Since I love baby wearing, I decided to invest in a backpack carrier so I could still wear him as he grew. Yesterday, my husband talked (or maybe, conned:) me into trying this Kelty TC 2.1 carrier baby backpack, which we got [...]
Matthew Givot Being a new mom is best likened to travelling to a foreign country. You’ve read the guidebooks, you don’t really speak the language, except I guess we can laugh and cry just like our children, and the necessity to be self-reliant is greater than ever. In this “new country” I have discovered a certain quality [...]
It’s day four of our my week-long series devoted to helping sleep-deprived moms. So I guess it’s pretty obvious that we can’t talk about needing a boost without mentioning coffee. Full disclosure: it’s true that I have been accused of being a coffee enthusiast in the past, which is a claim I won’t deny (okay, [...]





