Choosing the Good Life Through Self Care, Health, and Happiness
Mother’s Day is just over a week away. My preferred day usually starts out with coffee and quiet time in bed, followed by breakfast with Tim and the girls, and then a homemade crab leg dinner with my mom and the family. While this mash-up of quality and alone time makes for an ideal day, […] Read more…
Since we have been very fortunate to have two healthy happy babies, sleep training has 100% been our most difficult challenge. The mounds of available books, programs, expert opinions, non-expert opinions, blog posts, apps, schedules, etc. only make an already complicated subject more dizzying. Clearly there is no cut-and-dried answer. If there were, this black […] Read more…
Of course it has taken me waaaaay too long to write this. Writing is an involved process as is, let alone when you’ve got a new baby in the hacienda. I’ve been working on giving myself grace in all areas of life and allowing this wonderful (and short) phase of my life to evolve and […] Read more…
All of the holidays have been beyond fun this year. Lyla is finally able to really take everything in and her excitement just radiates out to the entire family. I honestly wasn’t sure if she would ever recover once Halloween ended. She literally loved every single decoration we would drive past from a simple spiderweb, […] Read more…
Lyla recently started going to Mother’s Day Out for the first time. I was well aware and accepting of the fact that we would go through the dreaded immune-building year. For those of you who haven’t experienced this, it is a horrible, but true, urban legend in which a child that has been kept at […] Read more…
Mother’s Day has always been such a fun holiday for me. I’m super fortunate to have a great relationship with my mom and I enjoy having a day to celebrate her (with her). This will be my second year actually participating as a mom and it’s a lot of fun being on both sides of […] Read more…
It was quite eye opening how big of a conversation starter being pregnant was. Random people out and about would initiate conversations that usually started with “when are you due?” and would then evolve into all types of well-wishes and personal stories. I somewhat expected this. Less expected was phase two of this new social […] Read more…
Lyla will be thirteen months old on Saturday and we are slowly phasing out a lot of the newborn items that have been such a huge part of our day to day over the last year. I have to say it’s a mix of emotions as I pack away things like her swing, doorway jumper, […] Read more…
We spent a lovely week vacationing in St. George Island with friends. This was followed by a lovely week with Lyla, my husband, and myself exchanging some mystery cold illness** that we had caught from our lovely friends at the beach. So I’m back from my fun/not so fun hiatus and thought I would share […] Read more…
Lyla’s first birthday is less than a week away. I didn’t want to go too crazy with gifts this year as she doesn’t know the difference and there will be more than enough time for “stuff”. With that being said, I do still enjoy finding things for her to play with…to counterbalance all of […] Read more…