• parenting,  travel

    Travel after 2 yrs

    We flew to Las Vegas over the 4th of July weekend to visit my parents and to do a bit of chillaxin.  For us, it was the first time flying with Natalie after she turned 2, which meant 2 things really: 1. She is no longer a lap child and flying as a family is now getting ridiculously expensive since she can’t fly free anymore, and 2. we flew with a convertible car seat for the first time.  Now, some people will just check the car seat in but we decided to bring it with us on the plane since Natalie is usually quite comfortable in the car seat.  To…

  • parenting,  travel

    Productive morning–stalking + checking in

    Woke up this morning to help another mommy friend stalk cloth diapers.  “Stalk cloth diapers?! What in the world is that?”  I mentioned in my last post that there are certain diaper brands that are limited in stock but super popular.  As a result, they have weekly or biweekly or daily stockings at specific times of the day – when that happens, all these crazed hippy mommies (like me!) stand at their computer hitting F5 over and over at the chance to tap “add to cart” for the diaper of their choice before it sells out…and these diapers usually will sell FAST.  It’s really insane.  Anyhow, this process is called…

  • parenting

    My quarterly update…

    …I kid I kid….no, but really, at the rate I’ve been blogging lately, it might as well be a quarterly update.  This is only the 6th blog post in all of 2012 and it’s already half way through the year.  Ugh.  And the thought of writing a post every time weighs heavily on me as so much happens (with Natalie at least) that I want to write..so it’s just daunting.  Naturally, the most interesting stuff in our lives is Natalie, so here goes an update for the last (gulp) 4 months…. Lil’ Kickers In March, Natalie started taking Lil’ Kickers classes with Matt and she totally loves it.  This is…