James & Jax

It might be premature to blog this, but I can’t help it (and I needed something to post today)! I think Jax has officially weaned. It’s been a few days since he nursed to sleep—since Friday night, to be exact. And since I know you’re wondering, he’s 2 years old and 9 months. I’m pretty [...]

Today, I’m linking up with Charity and Jen and Robin and Yuz and a whole slew of awesome mommas I know for an important reason: Too often, I dismiss the things about my life that I should be so proud of. Too often, I dwell on the negative, or the things I want to change. [...]

I feel like a bad mom today. I know it isn’t true, but I still keep hearing those two words in my head. Yesterday was a rough one. If you follow me on Twitter, you may have heard me talking about my husband’s Seven Fishes dinner–hosted at our house on Saturday night for a group [...]

I read this recently on NJToday.net: Childhood obesity has tripled in the last 30 years. In New Jersey, 15 percent of children are obese and the state has the nation’s highest incidence of obesity (18.4 percent) among low-income children 2 to 5 years old. If current trends continue, today’s children will be the first generation [...]

In honor of Labor Day tomorrow, I’ve been reminiscing about my labor (not that kind of labor, I know, but work with me, people!) with Jax and what followed. Specifically, I started hinking a lot about the people who proved to be the biggest helps to me in the postpartum period. I’ve also been thinking [...]