A Firefighter's Wife

My sweet baby Desmond,
You turned 10 months old today.  You have now officially been out in the world longer than you were in my tummy, and this makes me a little sad.  But, these last 10 months have been amazing and I’m so glad that I’ve gotten to spend them with you.
For the last month [...]

I’m not a photogenic person.  I always either have a funky face, have blinked, have 700 chins, or just in general, look bad.  It’s something I’ve learned to embrace about myself, but that doesn’t mean I like to take pictures.  Nevertheless, since we’ve had Desmond, I try to be more willing to be in pictures. [...]

When I was in junior high, we had to memorize a speech and recite it in front of the class.  I chose the poem “Always Saying Don’t” by Edgar A. Guest.  The poem is written from a child’s perspective and they talk about how their parents are always telling them to not play with this [...]

So, I know this is a few days late, but I haven’t really had a chance to post much lately because we’ve been crazy busy.  But anyway, for the 4th of July, we went to my parents’ house.  My parents live in this really small beach community, and I love it there.  It is honestly [...]

When I was pregnant, I had people tell me about how other parents would judge or condemn my parenting choices.  They would warn me that those parents should be ignored, or that all advice should be taken with a grain of salt.  And since I knew that most controversial parenting choices consisted of vaccinations, breastfeeding, [...]