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These are the things making me really happy these days. This video is the happiest thing on the Internet right now. I WANT TO BE IN THAT CAR SO BADLY. But a confession from a related video: I am the … Continue reading →

Yesterday Henry turned one month old, so basically we are old pros at the parenting thing. HA. Pretty much we still have no clue what we are doing, resulting in the tried and true method of “this worked once so … Continue reading →

I kept on looking for a good moment to sit down and type out a nice thoughtful blog post about life these days, but that moment never came. Or it did come, and it seemed a whole lot more important … Continue reading →

I spend at least 40% of my time these days sitting with Henry in my arms, either nursing, or incapable of moving because he is sleeping so peacefully and I just can’t put him down. I know that eventually (read: … Continue reading →

I didn’t need Marie Kondo to tell me to get rid of half my stuff. My mom is a master purger and she taught me well. Space, light, absence of clutter — these things are their own reward and it … Continue reading →

Maybe you didn’t spend the last nine months stressing about whether or not I would deliver a baby in the middle of my big brother’s wedding, but let me tell you- a whole lot of people did. When you plan … Continue reading →

I love reading birth stories. During the last trimester, I devoted a lot of time to two of the top preggo hobbies: reading birth stories and stalking Instagram pics of other pregnant women to compare bellies. It’s compulsive. Yet I … Continue reading →

On Tuesday I texted a bunch of my girlfriends the following picture with the very ambitious caption of “38 weeks and hopefully the last bump shot ever!”For a number of reasons that might someday be discussed in agonizing detail in … Continue reading →

I’ve been thinking lately about the intimate smallness of the big city that we live in. I’ve lived three places since moving to DC 5 years ago, all of them scattered about Capitol Hill. Maybe it is this commonality, this … Continue reading →