It’s official! The boy can crawl.

in 2036 my son will turn 13 years old and I wonder to myself what he will be like.

My son has gained many skills in the past 6 months. Some louder than others.

My son has learned the fine art of grabbing. Naturally chaos ensues.

Pacifier. Dummy. Binky. Whatever you call it Babies have a lot of them. My son received his first before he was even born.

According to my parents, I was bald until one years old. Thankfully, that was not the case for my son. However, he’s had quite the hair evolution in the past few months. Here are some of them

Here is my review of the movie “look both ways” as real-life Natalie.

This first week of August I went on my first family vacation with my son, and it was a blast. My parents, brother, aunt and son drove to Wildwood New Jersey to enjoy the beach, boardwalk, and food.

I had never been around a newborn baby before I had my son…so naturally I forgot to buy him newborn mittens.

I just left his perfectly formed, razor sharp fingernails to their own devices.

BIG MISTAKE.

The picture on the screen didn’t look like a person…

But there it was…

The invader.

Sitting in that chair in the pregnancy center, I was consumed in a sea of anxious thoughts…I was not at all prepared for what the volunteer said as they walked back into the room.

“Congratulations.”

My first action after I found out I was pregnant was searching “How to Get an Abortion.”

The second was, “Local Pregnancy Centers.” 

Since the instagram algorithm has figured out I am a mother, I am constantly recommended parenting content. So, Im pretty up-to-date on the recent trends, for example that tik tok audio “Tell me you’re a _ without telling me you’re a _”

It is universally known that American College Students are broke. So, Most of my days as one, I would walk the downtown streets window shopping and fantasizing about what I would buy when I was rich and successful. (Still working on that part

As a mom I am always in the splash-zone. Not the cool waterpark one, but the projectile-formula-vomit, diaper change one. 

Two weeks before I discovered I was pregnant I began to experience various symptoms.

I took my first pregnancy test two weeks before I was supposed to get my period. Nothing could have prepared me for when I saw those two pink lines. 

My breastfeeding experience began 30 minutes after I gave birth…“Why not?” I thought…My body was MEANT for this. Compared to pushing a whole human out of my vagina this was going to be a piece of cake!

Wrong.

You gain superpowers when you become a mom. Here are some of mine.

You often hear stories of women talking about the “instant connection” they felt when they gave birth to their child. I had always thought that the day I gave birth I would be one of those women experiencing that indescribable love and bond. Instead, I felt underwhelmed.