Birthday Month Part Two: Icing On Top Birthday Month Part Three: Floating On Air Sometimes Mommy Bloggers seem to have it all together. They show bright and crisp before & after photographs of DIY organizational projects. They proudly breastfeed until their children are at least two years old. They are stay-at-home, exclusively-organic, cloth diapering Mamas….
Childhood
New Mommy
It is official. I am a new Mommy. I didn’t really want to become a new Mommy, but it was a change that had to be made. I am now a Working Mom. My first day back at work went well. Cameron and Mommy both got through the day with minimal tears. I kept my…
Dear Cameron: A Love Letter to my One Year Old
Dear Cameron, Joyous. That’s the word. The word I would use to describe everything. This past year? Joyous. My life as your Mommy? Joyous. The person that you are? Joyous. Cameron, this past year has been the best year of my life. The moment you were born, my life changed. You made me a Mommy….
iPhoneography: The Week the Baby Went
As I was going through this week’s iPhone pictures I realized that most of them gave a “Mama’s eye view” of sending Cameron to daycare for the first time. The photos tell the tale of the sleepless nights and early mornings by capturing my increased intake of caffeine. They tell of the things I did to…
Surviving Daycare
Today was the day. I woke up to an alarm for the first time in months. Despite my propensity to wake up at any given hour with the baby, waking up to an alarm made me cranky. (How am I going to survive my first week back to work?!). Thankfully, I had showered the night…
First Words
(click through to see full photo) It is hard to pick out what a baby’s first word is. My baby pretty much says “Dada” all. the. time. But, he calls everything Dada, from the pictures on the wall, to my husband, to the dog… [continue reading] Laura (@LauraORourke) is a photographer who lives in Halifax, Nova…
Beautiful Chaos
So, I’ve been doing this Project 365 thing over on my photography blog where I take one photo a day for a year. On Tuesday, I took a photo of a shelf in our house that is supposed to hold some of Cameron’s books and toys in our kitchen. The purpose of my photo was to…
Twenty-Five with Smooth Legs
The baby’s getting sleepy. I’d better heat up a bottle. Man, I hope that bottle would hurry up and heat up. He’s getting cranky. Finally. Warm milk. Happy, resting baby in my arms. Bottle’s empty. Baby’s in bed. Fussy. Just fall asleep. Shhhh. You and I both know that you’re tired. You’d be…
O o O o O
Last night, I found myself cradling a box of banana flavoured Cheerios, stuffing my hand in, grabbing fistfuls and popping each Cheerio into my mouth one by one. All of a sudden, I kind of felt like my son. I don’t normally find myself stuffing my face with Cheerios, but last night I was feeling particularly not…
Toddling
I still have a baby. I still have a baby. I still have a baby. … a baby who walks. In this past months, Cameron has gone from taking his first steps to walking almost everywhere he goes. It is so precious. Dan and I just sit in the living room and giggle as he toddles…
Sleep in Heavenly Peace
Peace. Peace is a word that evokes the flickering of a flame at a Christmas Eve service or the crisp newness of the freshly fallen snow draped over the lawn or a Silent Night. Christmas is peaceful. Except when it isn’t. Peace might be one of the last words I would use to describe this…
