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Not everyone has the budget to design an extravagant nursery for their little one. I certainly didn't but it came out better than I could have ever imagined. When I was designing my nursery I looked to Pinterest for ideas and then found the most cost effective ways to...

The decision to breastfeed your baby is a personal one. Some know before they are even pregnant that they will breastfeed. Others go back and forth on whether they want a breastfed baby or give their new addition formula. Some moms want to breastfeed but for whatever r...

It is almost impossible to establish a routine with a newborn. They eat, sleep, poop, repeat. For the first few months we are on their schedule. Whatever they need we bend our routine around them. But when it is time and your baby is ready it's so important to establis...

Being a mom and living the mom life can't be summed up in one word, sentence or even a paragraph. Once you enter motherhood you also enter what we all refer to as mom life. It has a unique meaning to all different types of mamas out there but one thing we can all agree...

Our family is like a lot of families in the sense that my husband and I are both working parents. I would obviously would love to have one of us be a stay at home parent but unfortunately we aren't in a place where we can do so. A lot of the time Michael and I will wor...

We had dinner at my in-laws house, read Julia a story, tucked her in, stopped at the drug store and went back to our apartment. When we got home we took the test. The test that was about to change our lives.

One of the biggest questions I had on my first venture outside of the house with Miss Grace was, "What the heck do I pack in my diaper bag?" The only place we had gone in that first month was to the pediatrician's office and then right back home. When that first real t...

Throughout my entire pregnancy I told myself over and over that I wouldn't be that mom. The one constantly posting pictures of my newborn and every single thing that she was doing. That mom that when my daughter passed gas, the world would know about it (or at least my...