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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!  I hope you enjoy a long weekend with your family, friends and good food. Looking to draw attention away from an awkward love life, a professional set back or anything else you don’t want brought up at the dinner table? Here are 25 Little Known Facts about Thanksgiving. Movies are an awesome way…

How to Make a Low-Sugar, All-Natural Healthy First Birthday Cake
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How to Make a Low-Sugar, All-Natural Healthy First Birthday Cake

For Rocco’s first birthday cake, I set out to find a healthier alternative to the ‘smash cake’ tradition. I was overweight as a young adult, so introducing my son to healthy foods and building a solid foundation of good nutrition is very important to me. Since beginning solids six months ago, I’ve all but avoided giving…

New Moms Comparing Babies

New Moms Comparing Babies

Like most new moms, I’m sometimes insecure about my mothering skills. Therefore, I find myself clinging to child development milestones as lifelines in the sea of uncertainty that is new motherhood. However, it would seem that instead of lifelines, these seemingly objective data tend to act more as Mafioso-style cement shoes, drowning my spirit and…

My Baby Won’t Eat Solids

My Baby Won’t Eat Solids

There is no handbook to motherhood. Sure, there are literally tons of books written on child-rearing and the internet is flooded with motherly advice, from pediatricians to “mommy bloggers” and everything in between. But, over the last month, I was left perplexed by my son’s disinterest in solids. Simply, my baby won’t eat solids. Being…