When you’re trying to have a baby, it suddenly seems that everyone around you is pregnant or has children.  You run into women pushing their strollers on the street and you see expectant mothers...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post called “How Do You Know When to Get Married?”  Afterward, I received a sweet email from a reader asking if I would pose the same question about having...

The CPA and I are always looking for cool places to visit in the city.  We’ve seen museums and gardens and statues, things that have historical significance and things that have been added in...

Yep, we’re still trying and nope, I’m not pregnant yet.  So, with that out of the way, I want to talk about what to do while I’m NOT pregnant.  The constant trying and waiting over the past...

How do you know when you should get married?  This has always been a difficult question for me, which might explain why it took so long for me to tie the knot with someone.  Even now when I’m...

I’ve always believed that when you marry someone, you need to be sure that you have enough similarities that you have a good chance of making it.  These similarities are different for every person though.  For some, it is having a common religion or...

For a lot of women, a baby shower is a once in a lifetime experience.  Well, not attending them, that’s something that’s a little more frequent (I’ve gone to three in the past two months, not including my own).  But having your first baby shower for...

Someone asked me not too long ago if I would become a SAHM (Stay at Home Mom) when the time came.  I answered then that I wasn’t sure.  And I’m still not, not really.  It seems like it would be an easy decision – stay at home and take care of this...

My heart is full of thanks this year.  Not that I’m not normally thankful because I do try to be, but this year I am especially grateful for my life and the things that are a part of it.  In the past I feel like I’ve spent years searching for the...

I’m a planner by nature.  Whenever a big event is looming, I start making my checklists and going over the fine details in order to get ready – that’s the fun in it for me, the preparation.  So when I woke up a few nights ago feeling slightly funny,...