I wanted to find an easy recipe. One can only make so many crazy layer cakes before one just needs something simple. However, I didn’t want it to be boring. I’ve got a reputation to uphold! Enter the magic cake. Looks pretty basic, no? It is. If you have basic baking ingredients, a stand mixer, and an 8 by 8… View Post
Amelia: 124 weeks I told her to make a silly face for the camera. It’s much cuter than the fake smiles she’s been pulling out lately. Although those make me laugh too. Margot: 26 weeks If you ever doubted these two are related, allow me reassure you. Coloring and hair differences aside, they are clearly cut from the same mold…. View Post
My plan was to keep griping about my life and all the things that need to be fixed (and believe me, I could gripe about that all the livelong day) but I realized you don’t want to hear all that. Not bunched together without something entertaining in the middle, at any rate. Plus I’m in kind of a weird mood… View Post
—-WARNING!!!— It’s about to get all awkward up in here because today I’m talking girl parts and crazy hormones. If you’d rather run screaming in the opposite direction than read about menstruation (or a lack thereof) then now is the time to do so. Ahem. *taps mic* You still there? Okay. *deep breath* I have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). I… View Post
Amelia: 123 weeks & Margot: 25 weeks Mila has been facing some interesting challenges since Margot was born. For a while, she had nightmares or night terrors about 45 minutes into her naps. I was at my wits’ end, trying to soothe a child who seemingly could not be comforted, and get her to sleep enough during the day so… View Post