Mother, O’ Mother, come shake out your cloth, Empty the dustpan, poison the moth. Hang out the washing, make up the bed, Sew on a button and butter the bread. Where is the mother whose house is so shocking? She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking. Oh, I’ve grown as shiftless as Little Boy Blue,…
Tag: baby life
{life interrupted}
My sweet Blake is a fussy baby. Honestly people think he is easy because he doesn’t cry a lot when we are out and about. Well…he does cry. If I am not holding him, he cries. I mean cries almost any time I’m not holding him. He has some acid reflux issues and gas and…
{coffee & showers}
There are two things I can never seem to get enough of as a mommy: coffee and showers. I would like it if I could get a shower every day. And I cannot tell you how much coffee I long to drink by the hour. But mommy life makes it tough to do normal things….
{miracles}
Everything about babies is miraculous to me. Their start. Their growth inside another human. For so many months. Their birth. So many moving parts. So many steps before that first cry need to fall into place. And then they arrive. Every part of them from their instinct to nurse to their sweet sleep smiles is…
slept like a baby…WHAT? {my sleep training advice}
Babies are not always the best sleepers {in my experience}. They keep us up at night when they want to eat and make weird sounds. Why do we use the expression “I slept like a baby” for a good night’s sleep when in reality babies and their sleep can be a complicated thing? I read…