Holiday traditions are something that I hold very close to my heart. Theres something about the holidays that brings warmth, family and kindness to the forefront of our minds and it makes me feel lucky to be part of the human race.
There are so many memories from my childhood that center around traditions and the holidays and today I wanted to share a few with you. Traditions dont have to be huge experiences, even the smallest ones can create wonderful memories.
When I moved to Kansas City, one of the woman that I met in my church community was Kilee Nickels. After a few weeks of walking around liberty and Kansas City I started to recognize a very specific leather tear drop earring attached to everyone's ear lobes. It seemed like everyone and their 12 year old daughter had a pair and I wanted to know where they came from! Come to find out Kilee Nickels, co-owner of Nickel and Suede and blogger at One Little Momma was the maker and mastermind behind the earrings and she had some big things in store!
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There's no question that mommy hood is hard! I've heard it a million times, making mom friends is by far one of the most difficult things about mommy hood. Mothers are, on one hand, needing quality and fulfilling relationships with adults who speak actual words, and on the other, are completely and overwhelmingly exhausted from this thing called raising children. Its a catch 22 and today I want to give you some ideas of how to be a better mom friend. (Click here to read more)
When I got married to my sweet husband we had a plan! I was on birth control and we were thrilled to start our married life together. I was starting a new job, and at the time we had a long term plan to wait two or three years to have children. We were thrilled about the prospect of having a growing family within the next few years but the idea of relishing in newlywed bliss was something we were very much looking forward to.
No one tells you that birth control can sometimes fail. And sometimes user error is the reason for that failure. And sometimes the user doesn't even realize that they are the reason for the failure.
I was the user that failed to use the birth control correctly and therefore, one day, I realized that something wasn't right. My breakfast smelled terrible and it was making me gag. That had never happened before. (click here to read more!)
We get this question a lot and the first thing I want you to know, is that we can, in fact support you through a cesarean birth.
Whether it's be a planned cesarean, emergency cesarean or elective cesarean after laboring a few hours, we can support that.
Let me paint you a picture of how this works: (click to read more!)
