Still my small babe
I feel like I say this often- I realize how big my girls are getting. How grown up they’re becoming. I see it on a daily basis, with the “I
Parenting
Megan
- Jun 6, 2021
- 8 min
Meredith's birth story: I’m terrified of my bathtub and here’s why
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...
Megan
- Apr 20, 2021
- 4 min
Today was not a good day
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...
Megan
- Feb 23, 2021
- 2 min
Dear Husband
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...
Brittany
- Jan 12, 2021
- 3 min
Dear Meredith
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...
Megan
- Jan 5, 2021
- 4 min
A pillow made me cry today
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....
Oh- Four the Love
- Dec 29, 2020
- 3 min
Mom Culture
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...
Megan
- Dec 22, 2020
- 4 min
Default parent
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...
Brittany
- Dec 8, 2020
- 2 min
Still needed
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
Brittany
- Oct 14, 2020
- 2 min
Will you forgive me?
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
Megan
- Sep 30, 2020
- 4 min
The most un2020 day
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..
Megan
- Sep 9, 2020
- 4 min
These are my confessions
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...
Megan
- Aug 12, 2020
- 3 min
The juggle
How do you juggle? How do you juggle everything that needs to be done? The grocery shopping, the cooking, the constant cleaning, the laundry
Megan
- Jul 29, 2020
- 5 min
Who you’ll be?
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..
Megan
- Jul 27, 2020
- 3 min
Still doing the work, part 4
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...
Megan
- Jul 24, 2020
- 4 min
Grateful for less weight
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...
Megan
- Jul 20, 2020
- 2 min
Still doing the work, part 3
One of Addison’s other passions, outside of reading, is coloring. She loves to sit and color anything she can, she doesn’t discriminate...
Megan
- Jul 15, 2020
- 4 min
If you have a newborn, your partner is now your baby
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.
Brittany
- May 20, 2020
- 2 min
You’re what I never knew I needed
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
Megan
- May 18, 2020
- 3 min
One mother of a day
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.
Oh- Four the Love
- May 4, 2020
- 3 min
Learning the cry
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
Megan
- Apr 20, 2020
- 4 min
Full-time employee, full-time mom, big ol' failure
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...
Brittany
- Apr 15, 2020
- 3 min
Going to bed
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
Brittany
- Apr 6, 2020
- 3 min
It’s not you, it’s me
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
Megan
- Apr 3, 2020
- 4 min
Our unexpected first birthday celebration
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
Brittany
- Apr 1, 2020
- 3 min
My Hat Rack is Maxed
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*.
Megan
- Mar 30, 2020
- 6 min
When breast wasn’t our best
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
Megan
- Mar 27, 2020
- 5 min
Just a dump of a day
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.
Brittany
- Mar 23, 2020
- 3 min
SO WHAT NOW?
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
Oh- Four the Love
- Mar 18, 2020
- 6 min
Quarantivities
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
Megan
- Mar 11, 2020
- 3 min
No one told me that becoming a mom would also mean becoming invisible
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
Brian
- Mar 9, 2020
- 3 min
Man Cave, Shman Cave
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
Megan
- Mar 6, 2020
- 5 min
Down to the poopy wire and up to my eyeballs in anxiety
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.
Brittany
- Mar 4, 2020
- 3 min
Mud Puddles
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?
Brittany
- Mar 2, 2020
- 4 min
Bonus Mommin' Ain’t Easy
You know what feels harder than parenting? Step-parenting. You become the invisible parent. The one who is largely unrecognized[...]