How to prepare for a second baby

  It’s been a while since I’ve offered up my favorite type of advice. If you’re a parent or have even spoken aloud that you someday intend to become a parent, then you know this type of advice intimately. It’s unsolicited advice, of course. So here’s a little bit more (because there’s never enough) about…

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permission to be disappointed

As this pregnancy winds down (or ramps up), I’ve had this idea for something I’ve wanted to write about for several months but it’s felt risky to say out loud. And at the same time, it feels risky to not say it because soon I might forget that the feeling even existed. So, here we…

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Unsolicited advice: how to make friends as an adult

The last time I was tasked with the job of making new friends Abercrombie & Fitch was the main source of my clothing (that white eyelet ruffly mini skirt that fell exactly 1 inch below my tush was my pride and joy) and The Facebook was an actual physical book you received in your freshman orientation packet.…

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how to fly with a toddler

  We did it! We are now residents of Austin, Texas. But before I give you all the delicious details of our move, let’s just talk about how we got here. I mean physically. How we moved our bodies, and in particular the body of our 18 month-old which demands to be in constant motion, from…

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