Foodie to Food-in-a-Bag

My husband and I love food. BS (Before Sofia) we would even have considered ourselves “foodies”. Hundreds of dollars were spent on the newest restaurants and on trying the newest fad in food. We meandered our way through the local food, the slow food, and...

Crying Over Cabbage Rolls

I told myself I wasn’t going to “get” the baby blues – as if it was the common cold or something I could avoid. Rather, here’s a half dozen memorable post-baby weepy moments: 1. The day my mom went home. 2. When my husband, in asking what...

Pregnancy: The Privilege of Choice

I was lucky to have been pregnant for nine months. And lucky to deliver a healthy babe. Prior to that, I spent two years trying to get pregnant, having two ruptured ectopics and a miscarriage. With my history, I always knew that a successful pregnancy would end in a...

Let's have four more

My husband and I are still in the fog of newborn-ness and don’t understand how people have more than one. We’ve heard “you forget”. I don’t want to forget so I made a video of myself reminding me what it’s like. Husband is in the...

Saline + Suction

It took my sister texting me, “pull up your mommy panties” for me to actually attempt it. Saline + Suction. It’s awful to hear the little one so congested. For a while, her boogers bothered me more than her – or so I rationalized. Then she had...