Decorating cookies with kids is one of those activities when you need to throw your hands up in the air and let almost everything slide – expect a mess, a few tears, a sugar-crazed kid and you might actually enjoy the experience. My daughter is almost two and she knows what a cookie is, but […]
Before I start, a little vacation reminiscing. I am trying something a little different this week. I spend a good amount of time each week reading and checking out new blogs. It’s actually quite alarming how many talented writers, photographers, crafters, bakers, and the like are on the web. I am just one tiny slice […]
Sleep training a baby can feel like a never ending task. The moment you feel confident about your child mastering sleep is exactly when things start to shift again. My almost two-year-old, who’s been sleeping through the night steadily for over a year now, recently starting fighting nighttime sleep. The minute she was dropped into […]
Let’s talk terrible twos, are they really so terrible? I’ll be honest in saying, I think twos get a bad rap. Generally speaking, can a two year old be difficult? Absolutely. The second year of life can be seriously challenging to navigate when you’re only 35 inches tall and learn for the first time mom’s […]
I’ve been a parent for just shy of two years and far and away the most useful advice I could ever give to another parent is to be patient – how frustrating and not-helpful does that feel? If someone told me two years ago to be patient while my newborn cried for hours on end, I […]
In becoming a mom I accepted the responsibility of watching over my child. Navigating the often hectic streets of New York City with my daughter, I make painstaking efforts to see and hear everything – the bikers speeding on the sidewalk, the construction and scaffolding above, the cars zooming along the highway, the deafening noise […]
