Life after loss with one teenager, two surviving triplets and a rainbow baby
Motherhood is… frosting 24 cupcakes at midnight, getting up at 1 am to feed the baby and waking up with a bed full of little people by 5 relenting to socks with sandals, mismatched gloves, sunglasses and an inside out shirt with Barbie jewelry, on picture day telling the kids to stop licking the bowl while swallowing a mouth full of cookie dough watching two episodes of Mike the Knight and a Dora rerun before you realize you’re the only {Read More}
This week is World Immunization Week, the perfect time to talk about global immunizations and the children around the world who don’t have access to the most basic of medical care. Shot@life and the United Nations Foundation are working with great people like Nicole of Sisters From Another Mister who will be hosting a link up of motherhood stories to help raising funds for the campaign. The link up opens May 8th and ends the 18th, I will be taking part and I hope {Read More}
I recently connected with a new preemie mom through Instagram. Her twins suffered from twin to twin transfusion and, born severely premature, one has passed away while the other fights for life in the NICU. It is times like these, seeing pictures of the monitors and the tubes and those little eyes, born far too early to have a color, that I am brought back to how truly life-altering the NICU experience is. I see my own micro-preemies in the {Read More}
I’m so honored to be sharing my journey to finding my writing roots with the amazing Erin Margolin today. I’m talking about that time I never really discuss, that time before I was a mom. Was there ever such time? I’ve seen pictures (big glasses, high-waisted pants and double-layered socks) and I vaguely remember it (only the embarrassing, mind-scarring parts) and tried to put a bit of it into words to explain how my never-ending urge to write began. I {Read More}
When I was pregnant with the triplets and my blog existed solely to share ultrasound pictures and what I ate for dinner, I used to pour over a triplet mommy forum and every once in a while this famous blogger would pop in and I would be like “oh my gosh, the Buried with Children just answered my question about diaper changing assembly lines now I am only 40 million readers and 8,000 diaper changes from being a famous blogger {Read More}
I asked Alex of Late Enough to guest post for me ages ago. She is funny and smart and I love her strong honest voice but then I went to BlogHer. And I found out that not only is Alex an outstanding writer but she is the truest of friends you could ever ask for. So today I sort of feel walking around all day saying “look, look who is my friend and who is even on. my. blog!” Because {Read More}
This post is brought to you by gooey, creamy, delicious KRAFT Macaroni & Cheese. Start making digital macaroni art at DinnerNotArt.com today. ————————– My children have always had a penchant for making messes, especially with food. From an early age we had to lock down the fridge, the cabinets and clear the counters of anything that looked remotely mess-worthy. So, introducing crafts that use food to play with has never been something of interest to me. They play with {Read More}
I am twisting on a sippy cup lid and gulping coffee because I have two asking for breakfast and a camp lunch that may have to be packed using my feet. Two days ago I was in New York, a manicurist asking me what design I wanted. “Design? Is there a plain color I can try? Something neutral, pale, light pink?” “No,” she told me, “we are only offering designs” as she motioned towards a display of animal prints, checkered {Read More}
When things are at their worst, a well-meaning person always tells me to make sure I’m taking care of myself or to get out of the house and recharge. And I have always rolled my eyes at my sweet family and friends and then felt a little more alone than I was to begin with because they just don’t understand. I’m usually firmly planted between a melting down teen, a little girl who I can’t cure with a hug and two {Read More}
I'm Jessica, 30-something mom to five, four in my arms and one in my heart.
On any given day you will find me taxi-ing a teenager, mopping up our latest "art project" and trying to remember when I turned the crock pot on… all the while, looking for the closest Starbucks drive thru. more
