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Today it’s easier to tell her that she can be an

Today it’s easier to tell her that she can be anything she wants to be. ✨

The lamp of my dreams! After playing that target b

The lamp of my dreams! After playing that target back in stock notification game for weeks, one became available for drive up at a target in New Jersey. Guess who drove an hour with a one year old and a three year old to pick up a lamp? 🙈🙋🏼‍♀️ What can I say? It was love at first sight. http://liketk.it/36acK #liketkit @liketoknow.it #StayHomeWithLTK #LTKhome

My first photo of 2021 is of me standing on a toil

The best we could do with a self-timer and a phone

The best we could do with a self-timer and a phone balanced on a window pane. 😆 This was our first year with a kid who really understands Christmas and it was so fun. So even though it was just us, it was really special. I hope that during this rough year your Christmas was as special as it could be. Cheers, friends.

Does anyone else think about how all the dogs will

Does anyone else think about how all the dogs will feel when their current work from home humans eventually go back to the office? 😢 Lucky for Archie, I work from home all the time. That said, since we’re home basically all the time now, he has reached maximum levels of clingy and acts like I’ve been gone for a year if I so much as do a grocery pickup order. 🙈

One year of Colette. Because of the crazy time war

One year of Colette. Because of the crazy time warp that is 2020, it feels like she’s approximately 4 years old and I have zero memory of life before her. Hasn’t she always been here with us? The first year of her life was nothing like we ever could have imagined. Weird as it has been, there have been some beautiful positives. She’s spent thousands more hours with her Dad than she ever would have been able to in normal times. She and Ben learned how to play together, something I didn’t even realize was possible at their ages. We've gotten to soak up every minute of her first year of life. It's been hard and beautiful. We could not love her more and we're so glad we get to be her family. This project turned out to be fun and really satisfying. I'd like to give a shoutout to Nav, for being helpful and patient during these monthly photo sessions - plus a shoutout to his biceps for making a solid appearance in nearly every photo. 💪🏽 It sounds silly but having someone who supports my ideas, dreams, and visions (no matter how small) is really special and I feel lucky to have him as my partner in life and in parenthood.

These two turned 1 and 33 (respectively) this week

These two turned 1 and 33 (respectively) this weekend. Watching him be her Dad (and Ben’s) has been, without a doubt, the truest joy of my life. We are lucky lucky people. I love these birthday buddies so. 💕

I'm 2 days away from giving Coco whole milk and st

I'm 2 days away from giving Coco whole milk and starting to wean her and I can 👏🏼 not 👏🏼wait👏🏼. I feel like in this space (and in my real life), I've heard two similar breastfeeding stories that many Moms have in common. ⁣
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1. Love breastfeeding and felt like it was a beautiful connection with their baby⁣
2. Had breastfeeding supply issues, pain, latch issues, etc. and struggled⁣
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The narrative I haven't heard much? Experiences like my own. ⁣
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I have exclusively breastfed both of my children for their first year and you know what? Right now I'm really really over it. ⁣
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Physically it came easily to me (after pumping and working hard at it when Ben was born premature) so it felt like the obvious choice for us. It's cheap (not actually but that’s another post, you get it though). It's a great nutritional choice. I'm lucky to have the social support and work flexibility to have done it. But you know what? It was fine. Just okay. It's a thing I do and when I'm done I am DONE. I'm not attached to it and when I'm done I don't miss it. ⁣
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This time around, I struggled more mentally than I did the first time. I think it's because now I have two tiny humans crawling all over me and needing my body in different ways and I'm a person who needs more personal space. Add in a pandemic and zero childcare (i.e. zero time away from our children ever) and it was rough at times. ⁣
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I just thought I'd put this out there because again, I've heard a lot of stories with the two experiences mentioned above but that's not everyone. ⁣
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You can breastfeed and feel like it's what's best for your baby and family and do it mostly for nutritional purposes only and throw yourself a party when it's done. ⁣
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My party will include: wine (hopefully w/o a headache), the use of retinols, trying CBD oil, taking turns with my husband to feed her if she wakes up in the night, wearing bras that are cute again, not wearing two bras to go running, taking whatever medicine I want when I feel I need it, not needing breast pads 24/7, and finally, going full Office Space printer on my breast pump (ihateyousomuch but also thanks).

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