To my best friend on becoming a mom… I’m sorry I didn’t tell you there would be nights you’d cry yourself to sleep cuz all the mom guilt and sleep deprivation is just too much to handle sometimes. But yet you wake up the next morning and you try again because your kids love you…
Mom Jean Confessions: Bye Bye Baby
This post is sponsored by Evivo but the content and opinions expressed here are my own. It’s been exactly one month since Charlotte decided to stop breastfeeding. And when I say she “decided”, I mean – one minute she’s happy nursing, and the next she’s like “meh, I’m over it.” ? Girl has a mind…
Mom Jean Confessions: Self-Aware
This post is sponsored by Evivo but the content and opinions expressed here are my own. Our little Cha Cha just turned one, and for months leading up to her first birthday, I wasn’t thinking about what theme I wanted for her party (cuz cactus, duh, hehe). Nope. I was thinking about the dreaded “four-letter word”…
Why Iron? The One Thing My Mom Brain Forgot
This post is sponsored by Gerber®, but the content and opinions expressed here are my own. If you read my last post, you might have gathered we’ve been at the doctor’s office quite a bit lately. Poor lil Cha Cha was sick so many times I had to keep moving her 9 month appointment. It’s…
12 Weird Things All First-Time Moms Worry About
This post is sponsored by Evivo, but the content and opinions expressed here are my own. By now you’ve probably seen the Luvs diapers commercial showing the first-time mom totally over-reacting and sanitizing everything, and then the second-time mom hands her kid off to the dirty mechanic. Yep, that pretty much sums up the neurotic…
What I’m Feeding Cha Cha as a 2nd-Time Breastfeeding Mama
If someone would have told me – like, truly told me – just how different it would feel being a second-time mom to Charlotte (aka Cha Cha), I honestly don’t think I would have believed them. My first-time mom self was so sure of her sanctimommy ways, and yet at the same time so insecure….