Marriage

It's the little things. Ten tiny baby toes, soft and pudgy, toenails so small they might as well be glitter. White onesies, hanging from the clothesline in a neat row, swaying and dancing in the breeze against a backdrop of green. Baby...

One Monday afternoon, I arrived home from work to find my family napping and a plate of sliced pumpkin roll on the counter. I knew exactly who it was from. A lady who lives down the street had dropped...

As I sit down to write this I am distracted by my giddy excitement for the holidays. I am listening to Christmas music (I recommend the Jack Johnson Holiday station on Pandora), checking my email for the latest holiday promotions,...

Dear girls, This month your father and I will be married 20 years. You don’t know it yet, but you have the best dad in the world. You won’t know it for a while because he’s all you have ever...

I’m in total denial. There is no way my baby is turning one year old this month. It’s just not possible! It seems like yesterday that I was big and pregnant with our first baby but somehow a whole...

After two years of being part of the Iowa City Moms Blog, this will be my last post. It has been a fun (and very fast!) two years, and I truly can't believe that my little baby is now...

I have decided to take a brief hiatus from my "speech and language development" posts to write about something that I have been thinking about again and again in recent weeks. What is this new topic you may ask?...

Sometimes the greatest gifts are the ones that don't cost a thing. My husband and I both prefer quality time together over expensive gifts or material items, but I'd be lying if I said we don't like to open...

In the BC {Before Children} era, the hubs and I would spend many Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays alone together. We would watch movies, go on bike rides and do dinner at a place that didn’t have a kid’s menu....

I was young and in love. The thought of leaving the place where I had grown up, gone to school, made everlasting friendships, met the love of my life, and started our new life together had been pushed out...