By the Way

I write about pregnancy a lot lately because I find it so consuming. Right now it is the most time consuming, physically challenging, energ...

When I was pregnant with Juliana, we made several overnight treks to Beijing for prenatal appointments. It was our first baby, and I thought...

[While this is addressed specifically to mothers, the ideas are all pretty universal.] Dear Mothers, Self care is not selfish. It’s unde...

I have read my fair share of stereotypical gender roles kind of books, many of them talking about how important it is for a woman to feel be...

When Adalyn turned 1 last year, I was in complete denial. The first year had gone by so fast and it didn't seem possible that she wasn...

  I was under the impression that I wrote a little birthday update about the girls each year, but apparently I haven’t actually done th...

By the third time around, I shouldn’t really be surprised to find that I have a hard time with pregnancy. Now I will begin with a disclaim...

If you were wondering what has been happening in these last few months of blog silence... 1.We spent the summer in America, hitting up Kentu...

One day I will not wake up to the crying of children.  I will wake up, and it will be after 6am, and nobody will have disturbed me all nigh...

Ten years ago I moved overseas for the first time.   Single, barely 22, with no earthly clue what I was doing.   That first year was rough....