Welcome to “Confessions of a First-time Mom”!

I found sharing the news with others to be such an exciting time but also nerve-wracking! We wanted to tell as many people as we could in...

One of the most common questions I get from people is “is she sleeping through the night?” Do you ever wake up in the night hungry? Or...

August 24 is the day I would have gone back to work teaching if I wasn’t on maternity leave. Today is the day I would have been meeting...

The other week I went grocery shopping with my girl. I enjoy taking her to the store with me. I think it’s important to go to the grocery...

Content warning: This post briefly discusses child death. After hearing about a drowning at the local pond, my urgency to get baby in the...

Before we even told a lot of people that we were pregnant, we listed our house for a couple reasons: 1. We wanted somewhere that was...

It was September 21, 2021 when we found out we were expecting. I worked at my teaching job all day, then went for a workout at a local...

As I write my first blog post, I am nursing my baby to sleep. She’s just about three months old. These past few months have been nothing...