Joe’s namesake, my grandpa Joe, ate a bowl of Neapolitan ice cream basically every night of his life, up until his death. Even in the throes of Alzheimer’s he knew he needed his ice cream, …
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Ice cream
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Why to marry my husband
There’s a lot of reasons why marrying Morrison was the best and most logical thing I’ve ever done, but the most recent one: this toilet training sticker chart that he custom made for Joe (NOTE: …
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if you give a kid a sister
One of the reasons we wanted to have a second kid was that so Joe would cultivate independence, know that the world does not revolve around him, not that it’s impossible to teach this to …
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mama’s water
Joe has never been a Mama’s boy, he belongs to each of us equally, if anything it’s Morrison that’s usually making him laugh while I’m frantically getting his lunch ready, googling his snot, finding him …
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reasons I’ve cried
One of the MANY MANY THINGS they don’t tell you about what happens after you give birth, other than the fact that you won’t poop for ten years and this will cause some stress, is …
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Bob 💫
For anyone counting, hopefully no one is counting? I haven’t posted here in 5 DAYS so please revoke my perfect attendance certificate, I’ve been loyally (obsessively?) posting here every day, or at least every other …
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Cracker
Over the last year or so, our dear buddy Cracker — our OG baby, Morrison’s best friend and caretaker before I stepped into the roles — has slowly been on the decline. Despite FOUR TIMES …
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party of 4
Morrison says he feels like we’re already a family of four, probably because I’ve been lumbering around smuggling this human upside down pineapple for months now, but also because we always hoped and dreamed we …
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two plates of beignets
I think if you try hard enough, you can find a reason to make any day special for some random reason, but TODAY I declare special because I’m nine months pergernant and my pegenenancy app …
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a drawer
What is a blog, is it a drawer where you put coins and receipts? And pictures you don’t want to ever forget? I spent such an absurd amount of money on our family pictures last …