For those that think they are ‘just a mom’… Photography by Earthside Birth Photography and on Facebook. I recently asked Ruthie to do a revised version of this quote picture and here is what she came up with! Love it!
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I Got the Fever
So not to sound paranoid, but I’m pretty sure babies are following me. Wait, let me back up. It seems that it has been just long enough since I had my last baby that I have forgotten how uncomfortable I was at 40 weeks pregnant (more like from weeks 21-40…) and how much I really, really love sleeping. No, really.…
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Loving Each Other Enough
“The trouble with the world and the trouble with you and me is that we don’t love each other enough. And if we do, we don’t bother to show it, or we don’t bother to say it. If the world is to know love, it has to be in your heart and in mine.” –Marjorie Pay Hinckley, Small and Simple…
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Example of Mothers that Pave the Way
I have learned over the few short years that I’ve been a mother, that I need the example of women who inspire me. Women who are successful. Women who are kind, gentle, and caring. Most of all though, women who are dedicated mothers. Having other women pave the way and remind me that although it is a hard, seemingly thankless…
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The Nurturing Father; Daddies and Babies
We see a picture of a father holding, hugging, kissing or sleeping with his child and we melt. Why? Men are supposed to be ‘tough’ and be the providers, while the mothers are the nurturers. Which is true, but women and men can be either and both, and when we see a picture that shows the bonding and love between…
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One of Those Hard Motherhood Days…Needing a Reminder
I just had one of those days. You know, where you feel like you are doing it all wrong, someone is constantly getting hurt, two of them are screaming at you at the same time throughout the day while the others need you too. All while trying to clean, cook, realizing it is 1:00 pm and I haven’t eaten yet…
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10 Tips: Transition From 1 to 2 Kids.
All of our children are 20 months apart (except 2 and 3 are 28 months apart b/c baby 3 was my VBA2C baby and I took more time). It’s hard. So hard. Here are some things in hindsight that helped (and wished I would have known beforehand). 1. Let go of expectations. If you EXPECT both children to nap at…
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How Co-sleepers Do It…
Here are more pictures of BWF Families cosleeping! Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch, you can read more about safe cosleeping suggestions here. If you don’t like what you see, keep it to yourself. Everyone else…enjoy! Mother fills in a missing ingredient. “In the early months, much of a baby’s night is spent in active sleep—the state in…
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Gratitude
Definition of Gratitude: Thankfulness. This time of year we hear and read a lot about being grateful. Living in our modern societies, our perception of what we should be grateful for is highly skewed. As I pondered being grateful on this Thanksgiving, I thought of the last 2 years of my life, what we went through and where we are…