So this is 22. Sitting in our kitchen with Sophie on my lap and Marcus’s gloriously lopsided birthday cake on the counter. The candle’s been lit for ten minu...
It’s 3:17am and I’m sitting in my kitchen typing this with one hand while Sophie nurses.
Marcus has Googled everything. And I mean EVERYTHING. “How often do babies blink?” “Should her fingernails be that tiny?” “Is it normal for me to cry every t...
I don’t recognize myself in the mirror anymore. My body did this incredible thing - created a whole person - and now it feels like it belongs to someone else...
Eighteen hours. EIGHTEEN. That’s how long it took Sophie Grace Hartwell to make her grand entrance into this world. I’m writing this a week later because hon...
Forty weeks tomorrow and I am DONE. Done with not being able to see my feet. Done with waking up at 3am because this little gymnast decides that’s prime time...
So apparently at 8.5 months pregnant, I’ve entered full panic mode. The nursery is half-painted (started three weeks ago, lost steam at wall number two), the...
Reels, snapshots, and the behind-the-scenes chaos that never makes the blog.
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