Babies & Kids

December 31st, 2019 was kind of a big deal: New Year's Eve, the last day of the year, the last day of the decade...and the first day we got to hold our baby girl! Audrey Juliette Allen was born at 3:08 in the afternoon, which left just the perfect amount of time for snuggling her skin-to-skin, nursing her for the first time, and cooing over all her cute features (and […]

I know I haven't posted in awhile! I've been told I say sorry too much so I'm not even going to apologize for that. It is what it is! With less than a month left until baby girl arrives and the holiday season upon us, what energy I have is all being directed towards my family and personal life (as it should be). In fact, I'm not pushing myself to […]

I've been talking a lot about our kitchen and flooring, both of which are very, very exciting. But there's actually something else going on my life that's EVEN MORE EXCITING! Dun dun dun...I'm pregnant again! And I'm already 21 weeks along!!! So to put it mildly, our life has been pretty busy. Pregnant, living in a construction zone, wrapping up a flooring project and a kitchen remodel, with two rambunctious […]

This is a collaborative post. All opinions are my own. Our job as parents is to prepare our kids with the skills they will need throughout their lives. Sure, that includes helping them to read and write...but more than that, it's about the habits they form early in life that will stick for the long-haul. Habits like how they deal with their emotions, what they eat, and how much they exercise. […]