Why I Blog (Now)

To be completely honest, I can be a pretty insecure person. I am the queen of second guessing myself. From the things I say, to the clothes I wear, I'm constantly beating myself up. "I shouldn't have said that." "I'm too old to shop there." "That person never e-mailed me back. Are they mad at me?" Craziness. So it should be no surprise that those voices would taunt me when it comes to blogging...

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A Day In The Life

I've been toying with the idea of turning my blog into a book. Not the entire blog, but maybe one book to cover my pregnancy and another for Crosbi's first year. Blurb is a great site for turning your blog into a hardcover book and the more I browse the site, the more I think it would be really great to have a physical copy of my blog. Mainly because I've done a much better job of writing things down...

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The Most Important Job

Several people have asked about my new gig as an (almost) stay at home mom. "I thought you loved your job," they say. "Isn't your job the reason you moved to Nashville?" I did and it was. There are days when I second guess myself. I'll meet old co-workers for lunch and hear of their fun stories and trips to resorts that I would have most definitely been on and ask myself, did I really do the right...

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Crosbi: 4 Months

I love being a mom. I absolutely love it. While those words are easy to say for most, they're a big deal for me. I wasn't always sure motherhood was for me. I remember teasing my friends in high school in our "career opportunities" class that I was going to bring home so much more money than they would. Why? In our lesson on budgeting I had listed 0 children. Zero. I just didn't see myself having...

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