between caylin growing faster than i can keep up with, mother’s day, and moving soon, i feel like a basket case. it doesn’t help that our townhouse (up until this week when we tidied up a LOT) was starting look like a shell of a home. boxes everywhere,…
it’s not mother’s day yet, i know. but i felt the need to write this. especially after the last 8 months. even more after the last few weeks. and even more after the last 2 days. we pay my mom to be our full time nanny, but on…
from my pregnancy, through the first 8 months of caylin’s life, a lot of things came up that were unexpected–good and bad. this goes out to my preggo friends, friends of friends, or anyone needing reassurance from a fellow noob. here it is. 1. if you’re newly…
caylin turned 8 months old on tuesday. 8. months. old. * a little over 20 pounds! * wearing 18-month clothes (OMG!) * her hair is getting longer :) it’s so fuzzy and so blonde. who would’ve thought i’d make a blonde baby?! * she eats EVERYTHING. i share my dinner with her…
a year ago february, we went over our personal and professional goals at work with our leads. a year ago february, i wrote a post about it. these were my goals: 1. take the red hat security exam in june 2. have this baby 3. move into a house as…
caylin turned 7 months old on saturday. i really don’t know where the last 7 months went. it feels like just yesterday i was in the hospital holding her little bitty body in my arms, terrified of what to do with my new baby. now she is half my…
i’m sick of feeling like shit lately. i’ve been working out at home when i can doing this workout (ad-hoc’ing on the days i “can’t” with sets of pushups/crunches/jumping jacks when i’m trying to take care of caylin AND work out). i switched…
i finally got another tattoo today. i’ve had this craving for a long time now. i get them from time to time. i get the itch to get another piercing or tattoo, but i’m running out of piercing options, and i don’t want to get any “big”…