Ages + Stages

The days are long, but the years are short. It’s such a cliché. And in a year when time got turned on its head and seemed to move in the strangest ways – standing still in the first few weeks...

The beginning of February was a doozy for us. We aren't 100% certain where we got Covid seeing that we aren't out of the house much, but we have our theories. It all started with what we thought was...

We are on an almost robotic setting with some things in life, not because we don't care about those things, but because we are just so used to them that we don't think about them each time we do...

I know what many of you are thinking when reading the title: what could we possibly need for a third baby? And all girls?! I thought the same thing, which is why I had not thought to create a registry...

I love a good commercial. I am typically the girl who gets the strange looks because instead of asking about a particular television show, I am asking if you saw a certain commercial. Weird, I know, but stick with...

Amidst all the COVID-19 chaos, one bit of normalcy dominated the fall for my family: the college application process. My older son, a senior at Notre Dame, spent almost every moment of free time writing essays, completing the Common App...

Eight months ago, I welcomed my fifth baby and first girl into life. It had been nine years since the birth of my first baby and I felt immune to all the fads and scams in the baby merchandise...

I am on the verge of a whole new world. For the entirety of my adult life, I have been parenting little ones. I never thought I would see the end of diapers and pull ups, irrational temper tantrums,...

  If someone had told me that my children, ages one and 10 would not always get along, I wouldn't have believed them. What could there possibly be to argue about? Being 10 years younger than my brother, I believed...

Dear expecting mama, Speak up, speak out, and ask questions. After giving birth to my first child, I am now confident to speak up during the labor of my twins if I have a feeling something is not right. We did...