I love you. Two years ago today, on a beautiful sunny day in July, I promised to spend the rest of my life with you. I promised to love you during good times and bad, when we’re struggling and when we’re flourishing, when you’re at your worst and when you’re at your best. I promised…
Mommy’s Raspberry Man
My baby has a new trick. He’s been drooling like a faucet for about the last month and a half. With drool comes bubbles. And raspberries. Imagine how much more exciting the world is when you discover that putting your tongue between your lips and blowing makes noise! My baby has become a noisemaker fountain…
Mommy Pictures: A Day in the Life
No one can ever tell me that this job is easy. My Hungry Monster still wakes up at least twice, sometimes three times a night. We normally wake up at 1 or 2am, 4 or 5am, and then sometimes at 6am. The last wake-up is usually because my baby is gassy or otherwise uncomfortable. I…
Thinner Thursday
I have so not been in the mood to blog today. It is HOT y’all. Can I just say, I am so glad to not be pregnant in this heat! It is hard enough snuggling with a hot baby all day. Momma’s sweaty, baby is sweaty – we have pit stops every couple of hours…
The Swaddle Saga
A while ago (June 22nd to be exact), I put Cameron in his bed, and he was fast asleep. Normally he gets restless in his bed until I swaddle him and then he’s out. I had been considering de-swaddling for a while, but I just didn’t know how to go about it. So, when I…
Dear Cameron: A Love Letter to My Four Month Old
**Disclaimer: I really wrestled with whether I should post this today. Today Cameron is four months old. This really is meant to be a letter to my son about the last month, not just a gimmick for a blog. And so, for the first time, I have written about what is going on that has…
It was bound to happen
I’ve mentioned this before, but Cameron loves to stand. In fact, we can hold this three month old little boy’s hands and he will (slowly) walk a few steps. There are lots of times when he simply isn’t happy unless he is on his feet. On Saturday afternoon, the Hubs was hanging out with Cameron,…
Splish Splash
After we brought Cameron home from the hospital, we bathed him in the baby tub we had. Cameron… tolerated it. Barely. I must admit, I was pretty jealous of all the moms who said that their babies loved bath time. For me, bathing Cameron was a chore. I specifically put it off, then felt guilty…
Thinner Thurs…uh….Saturday
Thursday was Canada Day, so I took a bit of a break from blogging (and by break, I mean I was out at a barbecue and then Cameron didn’t go to bed so I didn’t have much time to blog). That meant my weekly weigh-in had to be postponed. Don’t you think I backed out…
Mommy Pictures
One of the fifty million MommyBlogs I read is by Meredith who thought up this fabulous idea called “In the Photo Fridays”. The whole idea is that we Moms are always behind the camera taking pictures of our little ones that we rarely have pictures of ourselves. Some day, I am sure that I will…
Happy Canada Day!
We interrupt this regularly scheduled blog to bring you this very important message: HAPPY CANADA DAY! Cameron celebrating his very first Canada Day 16 weeks, 5 days old Laura (@LauraORourke) is a photographer who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A wife to Dan and a mother to Cameron, she spends her free time blogging and…
