What a Difference a Year Makes

This is a tough one to write. I’ve been thinking about it for awhile and keep putting it off. Two sentences in, without even really saying anything yet and I’m already a mess. My eyes are instantly warm puddles, my glasses fogged up, my nose already running. But I’m all about addressing the uncomfortable, facing…

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How My Last Pregnancy Changed My Marriage

I’ve talked about my real marriage before, how it isn’t all roses and what Zach means to me. We’ve been through our share of struggles in life, but we’ve never been tested like we were the past year. Miscarriage is no joke. It takes a toll on everyone in the family, but we don’t speak…

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Reflections from a Camp Mom

I met Jennifer Halper twelve years ago when we both worked at Us Weekly magazine. She was one of my first friends there. I immediately gravitated towards her hilarious, blunt, no BS personality but it was her heart, beneath the sarcasm, that showed through during my difficult days there. She continued to show up post-magazine life,…

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The Big Meeting: Lilly and Her Baby Brother, Oliver

I always assumed I’d have my children meet for the first time in the hospital. After all, that’s always how I see it done. Tons of photos fill my feed of the older sibling holding the younger one in that pink and blue blanket. But when it came time for us to actually make arrangements,…

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Oliver’s Birth Story

Everyone told me with the second, it would happen faster. And they were right. Despite being convinced I was destined for another overdue pregnancy, after essentially being with child for 13 months considering my miscarriage, in the heat of summer (the day I delivered, it was 95 degrees), already very uncomfortable (acid reflux, sciatica, lightning…

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Ice Cream Social

Let’s see… We postponed the party once (early on before invites were out and people had made any real plans) from mid-May (her bday is beginning of May) to the first weekend in June, due to moving, being further behind than we’d like and hoping for warmer temps, it poured the week before (and after)…

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Our Father’s Day Gifts for Zach

My favorite gift to give is photos but I’ve done the standard printed ones in frames so many times, I’m always looking for new ways to display and gift them so when I discovered Mixbook‘s metal prints, I was sold. No additional frame to buy, no photo to size or fit (I can’t tell you…

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Powder Room

While I’ve mentioned that the previous owners of our home renovated the entire thing, gutting the kitchen and bathrooms and did a fantastic job (we didn’t want to change a thing except a coat of paint), our decor tastes are very different from theirs. It was never more evident as with the powder room. While…

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Scottsdale

I’ve already intro’d Amy, my badass friend and former colleague, in her first guest post on a romantic rendezvous to D.C. Next up, she’s taking us along on her one year anniversary trip to Scottsdale, AZ, a place I’ve never been but one that’s been on my list for awhile. I’m just going to live vicariously through her…

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My Wish for Lilly and Her Unborn Brother

In two weeks (we hope), we’ll officially be a family of four. It’s so surreal. It’s been just the three of us for so long, I’ve been pregnant for what seems like an eternity and so much has happened (miscarriage, move), it almost feels like we’ll forever be in limbo. And while I’m trying my…

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My Baby Shower

Three years ago, I did a share in the Hamptons with basically unknowns. We each had one child the same age and wanted to escape the city for the summer, have access to a pool, beach and a yard. Little did I know then, they’d become some of my best friends. Over the years, we’ve…

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Playroom Reveal

You saw how we were living. Small NYC apartment, cramped quarters, everything all in one room. It started out just fine. Despite my assertions that I didn’t want to raise a baby in the city, I found that it was actually quite easy. In fact, a lot of it seemed easier than it would in…

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