I gave up on sanitizing VERY early in the process. Even with the microwave bags, it was just too tedious to do everyday after a full day of work with four pumping sessions to get the five bottles my hungry little baby needed to make it through the day. Especially since I still needed to pump one more time that night…

You said this much more eloquently than I could. I used a ton of the most basic medela bottles for pumping and sending to daycare with my daughter. Two years later, my son HATED every bottle we tried and eventually gave in to the Momma nipples on the Nuk bottles if the milk was almost unbearably hot. He wouldn’t even…

I was also pretty adamant about having a good nickname. My rules were mostly focused on 1) not being too popular; 2) having a simple enough spelling that most people would get it right the first time; 3) having a good nickname that started with the same letter as the longer name; and 4) not too much overlap with…

You’re lucky, we were going for names that were outside the top 100. I feel like my kids have common enough names that they won’t be looked at funny but no one else in their class will have them. But we managed to pick names that are very common for two generations earlier, so I’ve gotten the “those are my parents…

Too many people really into Trolls? 

this is me exactly. I probably would’ve watched more Old Christine on a different channel. I’d almost forgotten about Under the Dome. But I watched HIMYM religiously.

But the video game character she did was awesome. “Beyonce! Beyonce!” “Rihanna! Rihanna!” I think it’s the most memorable skit of the season.

I’ve come to terms that I’m never going to be a distance runner, but I love running as part of a HIIT cardio workout. Coached runs have really pushed me past what I could ever do myself and I’m even planning to try some 5Ks in the future. 

Loves them, is picky about them, and is pretty good about putting them on by herself because daycare pushes it. Also, her feet don’t really grow so we’re still wearing the same shoes from a year ago. She’s almost 4 and she still wears a toddler 5 or 6.

We don’t leave the shoes in the car but I try to keep a spare pair in the diaper bag and in their personal backpack that they take to daycare. We had a scary situation last year with a standoff next door that resulted in us getting ushered out of our home at 4AM. The toddler was smart enough to say “do I need shoes?”…

Is it really wasting money for my kid to have a pair or two of sneakers and some dressier shoes? I buy them mostly at consignment sales and then sell them again anyway if they’re in decent condition still.

Uncrustables are great, they keep in the jelly so little hands stay cleaner.

They are great for trips to the zoo or aquarium and the crimping helps to keep everything inside the sandwich.

I don’t know if I can handle any of it anymore. I get a little queasy on the swings at the park.

I miss Kings Island so much. It was only about 30 minutes from my house if you knew the right back roads. Now I’ve got Knott’s Berry Farm and Six Flags Magic Mountain and Disneyland but they are all so pricey. And my husband’s vertigo means he has to watch me ride the big ones which is just no fun. Can’t wait till my…

We got mirrors for the backseat headrest that work great. I can see both rear facing kids. My 3.5 year old was forward facing for a bit but she missed being able to see herself in that mirror and wanted to rear face again. 

I can definitely relate to this one, I appreciate that they were able to move closer to family. I wish that were an option for us. My husband and I have also started tag teaming on the weekends for our similarly aged little ones. He’ll take them out on Saturday morning and I’ll do the same on Sunday morning. And then…

hahahaha, I’m not leaving stuff out for the cats to destroy overnight. And breakfast for my littles is ripping open a pack of mini muffins and handing them a sippy of milk. Which they eat while watching Bubble Guppies or Team Umizoomi and I go take a shower. I might not be winning at “momming” but I’m cool with that.

I HATE baby sizing. Every company is slightly different and some use a range but others use a single number. Baby Gap has clothes that they call 6-12 months, which means somewhere in that range (with a 3 month gap on either end) the clothes will actually fit. I thought women’s jeans were bad. Carter’s runs small,…

I think it’s partially for the baby while mom is gone but it’s also because mom is still pumping while traveling and it’s a pain to try to bring all that milk back with you and keep it cold the whole time. I mean, if you’re gone five days you might pump between 100 and 150 ounces, so at least 25 little bags of milk…