Dads.
Every May we celebrate Mother’s Day with careful planning and breakfast in bed and young dads scrambling for their young wives with their young, messy children because don’t you dare forget. And then...
View ArticleWhat I’ve Learned After Three Years Of Parenting (Spoiler Alert: It’s Nothing)
Three years ago today, at 12:23am, I began the journey known as “motherhood” or “constant worry and disturbing smells.” Waylon took his time coming out; 24 hours of labor and screams my dad could hear...
View ArticleWhen you are tightly wound.
It is the unwashed dishes. The dirty kitchen sink. The four baskets of clean laundry being scattered over the crumb flavored carpet by a drunk toddler. The kids aren’t eating enough vegetables. I’m not...
View ArticleLetting Go Of Breastfeeding
When I found out I was having a daughter, I promised myself two things: 1) To never, ever cut her bangs myself 2) To not push her into who I want her to be Eva was born a completely different kind of...
View ArticleAugust Soundtrack {2014}
Twenty tracks for melodramatic music enthusiasts, folk lovers, & hipsters disguised as dads. August Soundtrack {2014} by Kathrine Baer on Grooveshark *** All soundtracks here.
View ArticleWhen you buy a minivan.
Yesterday, exactly one year after I wrote Top Ten Reasons To Drive A Crappy Car, Austin and I took a little road trip to New York to pick up our heaviest eBay purchase to date. It took around ten...
View ArticleHoney, you’re fine.
Every time I try to write something about anything, I always end up saying the same thing: having young kids is hard. I could try to write “The Very Best Enchilada Recipe Ever” and would still end up...
View ArticlePreschool
This morning we are taking our three-year-old son to preschool. I am only mildly hysterical, pacing around the house, worried about socks and the speed at which we are eating our waffles. Austin has...
View ArticleRaising A Son In A World Full Of Daughters
Edited from the archives. Originally published March 26, 2013. + For my son We learned you were a boy on a cold day in February. Your dad hoped for blue, but I longed for a girl in the way girls do...
View ArticleIs God In The Basement? (And Other Questions)
A few years ago, I wrote a new-mom post worrying about the future spirituality (or lack thereof) of my kids. At the time it seemed important to “take a stance,” because that’s what you do when you have...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Vasectomies!
Do you want to know what guys love talking about? Vasectomies. Cosmo may think it has something to do with lace underwear, but no. Guys definitely love talking about testicular surgery. I want to tell...
View ArticleHello Halloween
Last Winter I stopped writing these kinds of posts. I took down all the monthly kid reviews and cliché photoshoots of my babies in suitcases and moved them all to their own personal sites so that only...
View ArticleAn Important Life
We blinked and here we are again, entering the season of love and loss, joy and sorrow. The tender and bright life of The Holidays. Thanksgiving. Christmas. New Years. All those big, pink hams. It is...
View ArticleThe Social Media Mom (But Seriously, What Sippy Cup?)
When you have spawn, especially young spawn, there are so many boring questions to answer. Like, are these pajamas warm enough? Should we try feeding her sweet potatoes again? Does my toddler think...
View ArticleWhen Babies Get Bigger (Evie Turns One)
Eva was born on a cold December morning. The room was quiet. There was snow on the ground. Her dad delivered her. I pushed for ten minutes and when Austin put her in my arms, I couldn’t believe she was...
View ArticleToddler Roadtrip + City Search
Hello and hello. We are back from a long leg of Residency Tour 2014 and happy to be in our own beds, with our own smells, and old jars of applesauce going bad in the fridge. It was a good trip. We did...
View ArticleLet’s Make Room
I’ve been seeing all these op-ed pieces lately on how it’s okay for boys to wear tutus. How no one is going to tell my son what he can and can’t wear. How girls can play with tractors so who cares if...
View ArticleDear Friend (Letter To Moms Of Toddlers)
Hello Mamas. I come in peace. No judgements. No agenda. No advice on potty training or vaccinating or how to get your toddler to stop peeing in the house plants. I know just as little as you do, which...
View ArticleHow To Talk To Your Grocer About Sex
A few weeks ago my three-year-old son asked how babies get inside your belly. This is not an unusual question for a three-year-old, but I still paused to consider its milestone. Before I was a parent,...
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11 Parenting Tips From Smart Women
You go through big chunks of time where you’re just thinking, ‘This is impossible — oh, this is impossible.’ And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible. Tina Fey...
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