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I just finished reading Deanna Fei’s Girl In Glass: How My “Distressed Baby” Defied the Odds, Shamed a CEO, and Taught Me the Essence of Love, Heartbreak, and Miracles and I feel eager to recommend it to anyone who has experience with preemies or NICUs. Her account felt eerily similar to my own experience, her […]

The first night I was ever away from my son was the night his sister was born. We co-slept every night of those first 16 months of his life, but none since her birth. He had already been growing more attached to his father. He was always the most excited to see him. After Iris came home this […]

Two things I’ve learned recently: my family has a routine, and my toddler relies on it for emotional stability. My two year old, my ten month old and I spent the last two weeks of August with our family in southern NJ. My husband had a work trip, and instead of tagging along, we opted to […]

My husband and I grew up at the south Jersey shore just outside of Atlantic City. We still visit our families there frequently, especially in the summer months, and I’m just now beginning to appreciate our hometown as a tourist destination. Every weekend the joy that fills our toddler on these trips makes it harder and harder to […]

This week we made it over to Snarkitecture’s architectural installation at DC’s National Building Museum, home of our favorite free play space for children, for their summer ball pit experience known as The BEACH. If you’re in the area I definitely recommend it! To be honest when we first walked in I felt a ping […]

My latest mission as a parent is to be more vigilant about being a responsible, conscious consumer. We fare well in this department when it comes to the food we eat and the household products we use — things that may directly affect our personal health. But it has recently been brought to my attention […]

This Father’s Day I’d like to shout from the rooftops how grateful I am to be parenting in this age of involved fathers. I’d like to say you know what, this isn’t “mom blogging” it’s “parent blogging!” I recently read this article about working mothers and my first thought was “wow, that sounds just like what my […]