Did you know today is international homebirth day? Did you know that this day (not by choice) applies to my family now? It has taken me a...

Today was not a good day. And when I say it was not a good day, I don’t mean we didn’t get out of our pajamas and we ate dry cereal at...

When the world is dark and silent and sleepy is when the weight and loneliness is the loudest. I know you leave the house to go to a job...

Hi! I’m your Aunt B! We met about a week ago. I’m not sure if you remember or not; you were totally cool and collected—slept through the...

Want to hear why a pillow placed in my daughter’s crib made me turn into a big ol’ pile of mushy, gushy feelings today? You’re in luck....

Okay. Let’s take a minute to get real. Or, even more real. Because if you’ve been keeping up with us for a while, then you should know we...

What does it feel like to not be the default parent? No, I genuinely want to know. Like talk dirty to me, go into full-detail and don’t...

I sit here at 1:05 in the afternoon, tired and brewing a cup of coffee I should probably be skipping. But I’m going to drink it all the same

This year has been HARD, in all the obvious ways and in ways I never expected either. When COVID first began changing the way we operated...

You, my baby, are turning three. And it is hitting me so hard. Just weeks ago, your Aunt watched me burst into full blown tears, surrounded

I am exhaling, I am dreaming of our future family of four, I am reveling, and I am remembering how lucky I am to have the people around me..

Confession: my tiny tot is testing my patience and I don’t know how much longer I can hold out. Repeats, “When little people are...

How do you juggle? How do you juggle everything that needs to be done? The grocery shopping, the cooking, the constant cleaning, the laundry

I have thoughts about who she’ll become often, but today I found myself doing it every time we tried our hand at any activity. I felt this..

I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing or if the things I’m doing are the right things to do. But we have to try, we have to start some...

You ever want to know how much your partner actually does? Do everything without them. Never again will I take having him around to help...

One of Addison’s other passions, outside of reading, is coloring. She loves to sit and color anything she can, she doesn’t discriminate...

We might have had a baby together, but darling, your child, your priority right now, is not that sweet precious bundle of joy. It is me.

You came crashing into life with an intoxicating boldness. You love what you love and you make absolutely no apologies. I am learning so muc

Mother’s Day was a beautifully hard day for me. Some of you, who have kept up with my recent writings, might be able to guess why.

I spent her infant days cycling through things that I thought it could be until we hit the nail on the head. Was she hungry? Need a new diap

I never saw myself as someone who would quit her job to stay home to take care of her family. I had always enjoyed the work I did...

I am trying to be a good E V E R Y T H I N G. Literally everything. To everyone. All of the time. Everywhere I go. Every second. Of every si

You know the typical narrative of the blended family? That’s not my narrative. And my gosh do I know how lucky I am.

If I had a nickel for every conversation I was a part of or overheard that entailed listing a nauseating number of activities....let’s just

My daughter turned one on March 25th. We had planned a small party for her with friends and family for March 21st. Right before shit hit the

I was a yes man, determined to prove to myself and the universe that I could still do it all. Spoiler alert: I COULDN’T. I *shouldn't*.

There’s no reason I couldn’t still maintain the crazy diet and breastfeed her, right? But sometimes, you have to consider your own happiness

When it rains, it pours? Well, when you’re having a dump of a day, someone gives you a literal dump to round it all out and keep you humble.

we decided we needed a short list of attainable things we can be doing to make sure that both ourselves and our littles are getting what we

Are you under lockdown and struggling with how to fill your days? We can’t promise that these are groundbreaking ideas, but we hope some of

Somehow, as I transitioned into being everything for my tiny little human, it has been forgotten that I am a person with my own set of needs

I’ve always dreamed of having my own Man Cave (my wife will roll her eyes here) – somewhere I can just be a dude and do dude things. But any

We are down to the poopy wire of when we should get this thing out of our system with ZERO sight of [the screw] and I am un-rav-el-ing.

Now it is time to escape the rain. I turn to put your squishy hand in mine and it is not where I think it is. Wait. Where are your hands?

You know what feels harder than parenting? Step-parenting. You become the invisible parent. The one who is largely unrecognized[...]