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"Can't your stay-at-home wife do that?"

These words were asked to my husband the other day and it was surprising... actually annoying af, how much this caused me to break into a...

Life at 15.

Aspen turned 15 months last week and hit another milestone yesterday: 15 pounds on the dot. We’ve been reaching for the 15lb mark since...

Progress... baby.

We all know progress is messy. No matter what we're tracking, it's rarely linear. It’s filled with both growth and setbacks, success and...

Crushing seeds of hope.

“You need to crush that seed of hope, Brie.” It’s not every day where you hear those words. And these ones actually came from my...

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Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming...

So my miniest is about to be ONE. How in the literal hell did that happen? I say that somewhat jokingly because it also feels like she’s...

The numbers game.

It’s such a weird life to constantly measure, count, and specifically define exactly how many ounces Pen takes and receives each day....

“Any chance you and your husband are related?”

Well there’s a question you don’t hear every day. So, the latest Aspen adventure took us to a geneticist at Levine’s last week. And while...

Hold on for one more day.

Love, Wilson Phillips. Man those girls know whats up. If only they could fix my monkey, too. Speaking of holding on, here's the latest...

Old mom, new baby. Wanna be friends?

I seriously was going to post these exact words in one of the mommy facebook groups I’m on. My best friend quickly shut this plan down...

The awesome and the suck.

Lately I’ve been appreciating how much things can be both awesome and rather sucky at the same time. And importantly, how much my...