“Sleep when they sleep” — the phrase everyone tells a new parent (insert eye roll emoji). Easier said than done.  There is always laundry and work and life happening. But…sleeping when the baby sleeps is SO much easier when there is only the one baby.   With my first baby, I did a lot of […]

We are just a few short weeks away from my son Parker’s first birthday. After we put the kids to bed last night, my husband and I were reflecting on the last (almost) year and just how much our little man has changed. From his first sleep in the hospital to today, we’ve seen sleepless […]

I knew that sleep would be disrupted when you had a baby, but not to the extent that we experienced. I figured it was normal to be exhausted with a newborn, and it would eventually pass as she got older. However, our daughter was a little more challenging than the average baby. Mackenzie always needed […]

How often do you hear parents complaining about the terrible two’s stage? I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve (on numerous occasions) wanted to pull my hair out of frustration as I sit and argue with my two year old (the 1000000 time) about staying in his seat at the dinner table. Do I even dare mention the fight of […]

Separation anxiety usually occurs between 8-10 months old and can last what seems like forever (atleast with my children). At first, I had thought my children were teething or even coming down with an illness, but after a week of no other symptoms from either, I knew they must have been going thru anxiety of […]