Babies & Kids

This is a collaborative post. All opinions are my own. I believe that there are going to be some truly positive side effects that come out of this time of quarantine...and one of those, I hope, is that families grow closer together. With all this time at home, and with our own family members being the only ones we're supposed to see in person (at least within six feet), I […]

This is a collaborative post. All opinions are my own. One of my parenting goals is to give my kids a lifelong love of reading. From the time they were all babies, I have tried to make books a part of their daily life. I read to them multiple times a day, we go to the library regularly (when it's not closed due to Covid-19) and we have an entire […]

Emmett is two! His birthday was Thursday, and you know what? Yeah, there's a quarantine going on. He couldn't have grandparents or cousins or friends at his party. We couldn't go to the carrousel or the gondola or even the park (everything's closed)...but he couldn't have cared less. He had a GREAT day. His dad stayed home from work, he woke up to balloons all over the floor in the […]

This is a collaborative post. All opinions are my own. There's something about having kids that makes you want to get your financial ducks in a row (or at least, that's how it worked for us). Before we had babies, we kept track of our spending but we weren't very intentional about it. We had plenty of money flowing in: we were both working good jobs and paying cheap rent […]