The Brave Little Mama

Growing a new baby is an amazing experience.  I have actually enjoyed most of my time spent being pregnant.  However, pregnancy is not all butterflies and glowing skin.  Growing a tiny human inside your body can be very uncomfortable. First there is morning sickness, then back pain, leg cramps and throughout it all, sleep is […]

As I sit here pregnant with my second child, I am trying to make sure that I prepare better this time around.  This mama learned A LOT in the first month with my son. I found myself wishing that I had done so many things differently while I was still pregnant.  Hopefully these lessons learned […]

Combining a few different ideas that I saw online, I decided to build a crib platform for my toddler’s mattress that would allow us to lower it an additional 3 inches.  Really, we could have lowered it up to 4.5 inches, but I am pregnant so I wanted to still be able to lay him […]

This post contains affiliate links. See affiliate disclosure here. Chances are that if you are reading this, then you also had the horrible experience of waking up to the sound of your child falling out of their crib to the ground.  The initial thud noise was probably followed by a loud wailing from your now traumatized […]

This is a story I have heard over and over again from my pregnant friends. Every time I try to bite my tongue and gently share my thoughts with them in the hopes they will change their expectations.  In reality, this is a message that the dad to be to be needs to hear, since […]

Gender reveal for a second child?  Is a big party appropriate for a second child?  Do you make your friends feel left out if you don’t have something big and inclusive?  The size and guest list of your gender reveal is something that you never expect to ever be conflicted over.  But there I found […]

I am a red-haired, blue-eyed, fair-skinned woman. My arms and face are covered with freckles.  I have been sunburned more times than I can count.  After college, I started avoiding the sun which was made easier since I was no longer surrounded by all of the college pool parties and lake weekends. As I have […]

I have always known that I wanted to be a mom.  Some of my friends think that I am crazy, but 5-year-old me couldn’t wait for the day that I would get to be a mama.  Don’t get me wrong, I had other dreams and ambitions as well and wanted to have my life in […]

I am going to start off by saying that this is one of the most ridiculous things that I have ever done as a pet owner. I adopted Camden when I was just 19 years old and he has been my shadow ever since. This year, he is celebrating his 10th birthday and I wanted […]

I’m not the first to tell you, but becoming a mom for the first time is an experience that no one can really prepare you for.  There are wonderful and not so wonderful parts of becoming a parent.  I have learned a few lessons along the way and I am sure that as mt first […]