“A goal without a plan is just a wish” –Antoine de Saint Exupery Life is crazy. Parenting is hard. How do people get anything done? As you can imagine, my life is no different in this regard. I have an 8-month-old, a husband, two dogs, a house, I work VERY part-time, I’m in a doctorate… Continue reading Weekly Planning
Apparently I am just coming out with a bang with my posts after Flynn. Leave it to me discuss something that gets a lot of hype and still some controversy. Media. Screen Time. TV. Ipads. Phones/YouTube. Toys that make music and light up and are what I would call a bit flashy. Has your pediatrician… Continue reading Why We Avoid Media Use & High-Stimulation Toys
Take a moment. Pause. Take a deep breath. Close your eyes. Tune in to what you hear. The air conditioner running? Dogs barking? Birds Chirping? The sound of your infant grunting himself to sleep through the baby monitor…. Tune in to what you feel. Low-back tenderness? Pressure in your forehead? The comfort of the couch?… Continue reading Mindset Goes a Long Way
Our little bundle finally arrived! As I am sure you can imagine, especially if you are a mom, the past 6 weeks have mostly been a blur of living in survival mode. This is the first time I have sat down to write anything since a few weeks before he was born. There is a… Continue reading Post-Partum: 9 Things No One Told Me About the First 6 Weeks
Just a quick word on debt snowballing to finish out this series. I may provide some budgeting tips in the future from time-to-time as well! The general idea behind the debt snowball is that after you have established your initial savings fund, you start attacking debt with every bit of money you have left over with each… Continue reading Budgeting: The Debt Snowball
If you have been following along this pregnancy, you know that our little nugget has been breech the past few weeks. While I have tried all the recommended tricks and tactics to encourage baby to turn around, I have sadly, not been successful. We even agreed to two attempts at an external cephalic version (where… Continue reading When Baby Throws a Curve-Ball
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I added water aerobics to my regular exercise program. I have never been keen on water exercise. I can’t figure out how to breathe while swimming. I’m certain I don’t perform strokes correctly. And I hate the feeling of salt or chlorine in my hair. The obvious… Continue reading Water Aerobics & 30-minute Workout
Welcome back to Week 3 in my short budgeting series! Some of you may have heard of a cash envelope system. I have read Dave Ramsey and know this is often recommended by him, as well as many other budgeting gurus out there. I both like and dislike this system. For individuals and families on… Continue reading Budgeting: Modified Cash Envelope System
Many times when we hear of “dieting” or “eating healthy”, it is assumed that we need to eat baked chicken breast and plain salads everyday. No flavor. No fat. No dressing. No yummy-ness. I assure you, as many recent individuals have before me, that this is not the case. Eating healthy does not have to… Continue reading Spicing Up Your Salad
Week 35 Update! Baby O. has decided to be a breech baby. At least for now. According to my ultrasound earlier this week he/she is butt down, with legs and head up. In other words, frank breech. Now, I do still have some time for baby to turn back around and I have definitely heard… Continue reading Pregnancy: Breech Baby
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