Please join me in welcoming the newest mama bee to join the hive, Mrs. Stroller!

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Hi Hive! I’m so happy to be the newest momma bee! My little guy, Maddox, is 4 months old and growing way too fast. It seems like yesterday when we took his newborn photos at 5 days old.


Photo by Ali Caudill Photography

Does anyone have some pixie dust I can borrow?

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Notice the bee swaddle in that photo? For the past few years I’ve been blogging about our life renovating our home, “Our Little Beehive!” Mr. Stroller is a pilot and his call-sign is Scotty-B; when we first started dating his friends would joke that he lived at the B-Hive . . . and the name stuck when we bought our house. I’m so excited to be here at this new hive.

Mr. Stroller and I were married in September 2009. Days after our wedding we packed up and moved to the D.C. area where we lived in his parents’ summer house for a few months while searching for a suitable hive. When we moved, I kept my job and have been working from a home office ever since, minus twelve weeks of maternity leave. We had no plans to start a family right away, but one day in early 2010 Mr. Stroller told me to just stop using birth control and not even tell him. So I did! I got pregnant right away and surprised him with a mini flight suit with the name tag “baby bee” on it.

He was shocked and speechless to say the very least. He had absolutely no idea I’d actually do what he suggested! We were over the moon excited about our baby bee, talking about names and nurseries and making plans for our future until I miscarried. We were devastated, but even more so when it happened again. After several miscarriages and chemical pregnancies, a fertility specialist helped me stay pregnant with our perfect little boy.

I had a long labor that didn’t exactly go as planned, but we’d learned to expect the unexpected and Mr. Stroller, my doula and a nurse midwife helped make it great experience. I faced big breastfeeding challenges during the first couple months (back in the hospital alone for Christmas Eve!), but with lots of hard work and a whole lot of stubbornness, baby Stroller has been grown on my milk and is now a nursing superstar.

Baby Stroller is a great sleeper too . . . at least at night, since he just started to protest his wonderful, long daytime naps. He’s just so interested in everything that he doesn’t want to miss a minute! He especially loves looking at all the fun stuff in his elephant nursery, which was one big DIY project after another.


Photo by Ali Cauldwell Photography

I can’t wait to share project ideas with you!



We love having Baby Stroller in our lives and our first baby, Feeney, a re-homed Golden Doodle, thinks he’s pretty great too.

I’m so happy to be here and am really looking forward to sharing my experiences as a new mom with you!