Growing Up

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Let Them Be Little

A random thought popped to mind when Mads and I were driving to school, listening to the Disney station on Pandora for the million and tenth time, which is carefully curated to include Tangled, Frozen, The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. {I guess the girl has a few favorites…} New music was recently added to the station {YES!!} and the classic Adventures of Winnie the Pooh song came on unexpectedly. Mads immediately identified the theme. And then after...

The Lasts

This random thought popped into my head a few months ago…I don’t remember the last time I washed a bottle. I don’t remember the last time I swaddled her. Infancy, those first beautiful months, just disappeared....

Tumultuous Twos, Enter Stage Right.

I think the two year old, or rather the year itself, gets a bad rap. I never really understood why people would call this age “terrible.” I’m sure there are enough moms out there that would like to slap my wrists and call me a newb. They hang their mama veteran status high and proud. “I’ve been through it all,” they say, “and those twos are terrible.” To those veteran moms: I hear ya, loud and c l e a...