So much for those big promises in the last post. Let’s just pretend there is no four-month gap and move on, shall we? There are product reviews and articles forthcoming, but working 50+ hours a week and mothering a 1.5- and 2.5-year-old leaves little time for much of anything else. While I’ve been off in my own little, busy world and failing to inform you, Internet, of great home improvement tips,...

Having had two pregnancies almost back-to-back (my kids are just less than a year apart), I read a lot of books on the subject. My favorite pregnancy book was The Mother of All Pregnancy Books by Ann Douglas. It’s written in a conversational style and is probably the most thorough of all the pregnancy books I read (or started to read and then put down because they just didn’t measure up to this...

in earlier articles, i’ve rambled on about what types of products to exclude when you’re expecting, but this is a list of consumables, activities and such that you should exclude while expecting - for your health, and for your baby’s. if you’re pregnant, you’re probably absorbing a lot of information from books and the internet right now, so chances are you’ve seen some, if...

wow, an entire post devoted exclusively to poop! if you’re expecting your first baby, you probably have no idea just how important poop is about to become in your household. never before has poop had such priority, such meaning. sudden, drastic changes in baby poop can be concerning though, especially for new moms. fear not! the official baby poop decoder has you covered. well, hopefully NOT “covered”,...

in my “what to exclude” article, i mentioned that our two single strollers had to be replaced when our 2nd baby came along last summer. initially, we bought an evenflo tandem stroller. at the time the “exclude” article was written, i was happy with said stroller, but it didn’t take long for that to change. i’ll put it this way. if you have twins or two children small enough...

Expectant mothers, especially first-timers, have much to think about. There’s so much planning to do that you may not know where to begin! You’ll probably do a lot of reading of those pregnancy and baby care books that everyone will recommend or pass on to you. You may find yourself submerged in online birth clubs and baby blogs, scouring the internet for those precious gems of wisdom that often are found...