I love giving hand-knit blankets for baby presents. They’re special and unique (like babies!), but they can be pretty simple knitting projects and you don’t have to worry about them fitting. In fact, if I don’t have the exact yarn or needles for a pattern, usually I just use what I have and it works […]
5 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Having a New Baby
After bringing home four new little babies, I think I finally know what I’m doing. Actually, we were pretty good after Baby #2. That’s always the way it works, isn’t it? For the first baby, you have everything ready to go three months before your due date. You have the car seat professionally installed (we took […]
What to Expect When You’re Expecting
I was the first in my circle of friends to have a baby. And as the oldest child, the first in my family as well. So I had a lot of questions. I asked my doctor a bunch of them, but by the time I got home from my appointment, I’d realize I had more. […]
20 Board Books to Read with Your Baby
One of my favorite times of day has always been just before bed, when clean (usually!) kids in fuzzy jammies all pile on the bed or the couch and we read together. We started when they were babies and we still do it today. So I’m over at The Train Driver’s Wife, listing 20 of […]
Baby’s First Road Trip
Since we’ve always had family several hundred miles away, each of our babies have been in the car and on the road within the first few months of being born. Here are a few things we’ve learned along the way:
4 Ways to Recharge as New Parents
As part of the Ultimate Guide to Baby’s First Year, today I — and over 30 other bloggers — are helping new parents take care of themselves. Because it’s a weird, insular world, those first few weeks with a new baby. You don’t get out much. Babies are frigging demanding. They don’t do anything for themselves. But […]
