This post isn’t sponsored--I just like working out! But if you use my ClassPass link, we’ll each get $40. If you join right now, you’ll get your first month free. I was pretty active throughout both of my pregnancies, but the postpartum period kicked my butt. I thought I had done a pretty good job ...
Top 5 Post-Baby Workouts
A Letter to Project Motherhood
I’m not any everything-needs-to-be-perfect mom. I’m just a strung out WAHM who is kinda drowning a little bit. -Allison Cooper, "When Mom Burnout is Your Reality" Allison Cooper of Project Motherhood and I have been friends for years. Our husbands, Chris and Damany, have been best friends since ...
Happy 2020!!!
Happy New Year, y’all! New Year’s is my favorite holiday. I’m a very type-A person by nature, so I love anything that has to do with goal setting. But there’s something special about the promise of a new year that has everyone seeming just a little happier and a little more hopeful. ...
Preparing for Leave as a Freelancer
Ironically enough, when my husband and I first knew that we wanted to have a baby, being a freelancer seemed like the worst idea ever. After all, grown-ups had grown-up jobs, right? They had benefits and salaries and paid leave. I spent much of my adult life chasing down that perfect “big girl job,” ...
Ways to Relax When You’re Ridiculously Pregnant
I feel like in the last couple of weeks, I have been subject to a near-perfect storm of fuckery that has conspired to make me as hot and miserable (in all senses of the word) as possible. When you're this frigging pregnant (and in the middle of a summer heat wave), even the most saintly among us ...
Why We Chose a Midwife Over the Hospital
With just eight weeks left to go, I find myself thinking a lot about the last stage of pregnancy--birth. It’s the last hurdle to jump before we get to meet our new little one, and while I’m over-the-moon-excited, I’m also beginning to get really nervous all over again. Fortunately, we have the most ...
