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Dear Ash, You’re 19 months old today! We’ve spent more time apart than ever before this month, but we’re managing and we’re actually doing okay. I went back to work this month, something I hadn’t been planning on doing until I found a job that I knew I’d enjoy and so that I could eventually [...]

I don’t think anyone can fully understand just how overwhelming and debilitating “Mommy Brain” is until they themselves are suffering from it. For me, it goes far beyond forgetfulness or scatterbrain- it’s as though I’m living someone else’s life with no memory of my own. Ask me what I did yesterday. Go ahead. Do it. [...]

Dear Ash, You’re a year and a half old today! You are such a little boy, I would nearly say- outside of the occasionally gibberish- that you’re only 10% baby now. You’ve grown up so fast!! We’ve had a very exciting breakthrough this month. We had two appointments booked at the allergy clinic for this [...]

So, a friend of mine called me a hypocrite recently in a heated discussion about where a new dad should go to register for a baby shower. I told him to avoid Toys R Us and to search out more natural product lines (cloth and wooden toys specifically) and to get an account with WishCentral.com [...]

Yesterday Ash and I were on the floor and the light was coming in just right, right on us, and he looked up and saw all the dust that floats around all the time but we only ever see when that stream of light comes into a window. He raised his hands and acted like [...]

It gets a little quiet around here this time of month, every month, because I tell myself that until I post Ash’s monthly newsletter, I am not to blog about anything else. Time should be spent on writing that, not anything else. My mind gets fuzzy with details, because even in the six days it [...]

Last weekend we achieved one of Clive’s parenting goals and took Ash ice skating with the strap-on skates you can buy at Canadian Tire. Both of them loved it. We didn’t stay out long because it was so cold, but Ash loved slipping on the ice. It was too cute.

So I’ve decided to go back to work. Have I talked about this yet? I don’t think so. It’s a pretty big decision. Sometimes when I think about it and I’m with Ash I get teary. I honestly don’t know how I’m going to do this. Waiting lists are long for daycares here. There’s a [...]

Sometimes I feel like I’m writing too much about this topic. This hot topic of WHEN TO HAVE THE NEXT BABY, but I think about it all the time, and it’s such a huge decision. I’ve been reconsidering my goal of breastfeeding Ash for two years in order to get pregnant again. I’m scared of [...]