Category: Family Life

It seems to be ground zero of the mommy wars: breast vs. bottle.  Is formula really that much worse?  Who decides when breast is not best for a mother/baby pair?  What if a mommy can’t …

Yesterday, after dropping hubby’s car in for service we decided to head to the beach for the first time with Pipsqueak.  It was an awesomely beautiful day and we all had a little fun in …

According to child psychologist Charlotte Reznick who started an internet firestorm a few weeks ago, it’s apparently no longer appropriate to kiss one’s child on the lips because the lips are an erogenous zone and …

My saga of having too much breastmilk with Doodle and now with Pipsqueak hasn’t really gotten any easier.  I thought I had taken care of Pipsqueak’s troubles with block feeding (feeding twice per side) as …

Earlier in the week, I posted this Psychology Today article about how depression and anxiety are on the rise among America’s youth compared to generations past.  The article discusses reasons for the shift including a …

We may live in South Florida which means we don’t get a lot of seasons.  But Fall is in the air (or in the stores, at least) and just because it’s 90 degrees and stupidly …

This is my diaper bag, my glorious Irish Rugby backpack that we have toted all over since we left Dublin over three years ago (we actually bought it at the airport giftshop the day we …

I’m a half-crunchy mom. I prefer to give birth in my bathtub but am not anti-vax or against mainstream medicine. I breastfeed well past a year but don’t buy only organic or GMO free. I …

Doodle was such an easy-going baby, for a while.  And then he became a screaming, raging lunatic like Sugarplum.  Hubby and I often talk about when the switch happened and we aren’t really able to …

My parents went home on Wednesday and hubby isn’t starting his paternity leave until next week which has left me with three days to manage all the kids completely on my own!  We’ve been doing a lot …