We were scheduled to induce at St. David’s North Austin on Wednesday, September 11. I spent most most of the week before in anxiety about the upcoming, unfamiliar experience…but on induction day, I was calm and ready. Aaron, on the other hand, came home early from work to knock out the rest of his “nesting…

It’s the final countdown, doo doo doo doooo. These last weeks felt forever long…full of excitement and anxiety. We made a final trip to Missouri and then holed up at home for the final stretch.

It was a couple of weeks into the second trimester, but the fog finally cleared and I made the first motivated to-do list I’d made in a long time. What else happened in the second trimester? We found out we were having a boy. I started prenatal yoga. Baby started moving! We took a childbirth…

Hilarious how I thought I would start up a blog and immediately fell prey to the nausea and unmotivational fog of pregnancy’s first trimester. Although I may not have been blogging, I was keeping a weekly journal of my experience. Now that I’m safely in the second trimester and feeling GREAT (comparatively), it seems like…

A year after graduating college, my friend group (the “Peaches”) planned a reunion trip to Las Vegas. We crammed ourselves into two hotel rooms at the Excalibur and got the strongest/cheapest drinks we could find to maximize our limited budgets. We carried on late into the night and slept in most of the day. As…