you know what's hard? cooking dinner for your family, feeding it to your infant, and not being able to eat it yourself. i just want to eat reaaaaaaaal fooooooood. that being said, i survived, and i didn't cave. on to day 3! ...

yesterday was my first day on the master cleanse. it wasn't awful! easier than i thought, at least. i didn't feel hungry until about 2:30 when bens and i were leaving tempe marketplace. the lemonade actually tastes pretty good. i'd say the worst part is definitely the salt water flush. technically, you're supposed to drink 32 oz of water with 2 tsp of...

i have never, ever even come close to telling myself that i could do a cleanse, but alas, my eating habits are so awful right now, that i have convinced myself that i need something extreme to reset them. i am always so concerned about making sure benson is fed, and taking advantage of the time he's restrained in his high chair to...

motherhood did not come easy for me.  i think i mentioned this in benson's birth story, but once mat went back to work after bens was born, i was a wreck. the thought of being this little human's sole survival tool was overwhelming.  the fact that i so desperately needed to recover myself didn't help, and, of course, hormones. that newborn stage, man....

april 16, 2015 benster boy - you did it! You've been out of the womb as long as you were in it. These nine months we have watched you learn and grow so much. You are surrounded by an insane amount of people that love you so. I've been asking you a lot lately if you even realize how loved you are. It's...

i came across an article today on Facebook about a 19 year old girl who was, "quitting social media." she was "internet famous," and had over 600k followers on her instagram, and more on her tumblr and youtube. i read the article, browsed her instagram, and watched the video she made explaining her choice. the basic gist of it was that since she...