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Extreme Babywearing: Deuter Kid Comfort 2 Review

In the next couple of months, I’m going to be reviewing a few of the items we bought and used during Mackenzie’s first 3 years of life. I cannot even believe that she’s already that old! Hopefully some of you who are expecting children, have young ones or know others with youngin’s will find the information useful for your future purchases. And if not, come back tomorrow where... read more

Mackenzie’s Christening Dinner

Just about two years ago, several close friends and family gathered together to celebrate Mackenzie’s christening. Not only was she showered with love, but also tons of presents — and the adults got to enjoy lots of delicious cakes and other yummy treats. Since I just discovered over the weekend that I had never shared these photos, I thought that it would be appropriate now since it was... read more

Natural diaper rash treatment

I first learned about this fantastic diaper rash treatment from Jentry which I had the pleasure of meeting in person at the last year’s WEBMU in Hamburg. As mothers do, we were sitting at lunch after taking an amazing walking tour of the city and our conversation turned to potty talk. All the non-parents managed to tune out quickly and as I was talking about Mackenzie’s extremely sensitive... read more

Homemade Baby Wipes

When you’ve got a little one at home in diapers, you seem to go through an unlimited supply of baby wipes every week. I know there are some people out there that make their own baby wipes with old towels, rags or socks…and I’m sure you could use those with this solution as well. But to be honest, I don’t really want a pile of these rags laying around, covered in poop. Which is why I... read more

A Day In The Life Of A Signing Mom

I know I haven’t talked much about it on this blog, but you’ve probably seen me mention that we’ve used sign language to communicate better with Mackenzie. I think it is an ingenious way to understand each other better…and it’s really not that difficult to learn the signs — just make sure you remember them because your children will use them and leave you feeling lost! ... read more

10 incredible (and free) resources for baby signing

We started using baby sign language with Mackenzie when she was about 6 months old and I think it was one of the best ideas we ever had. Not only could she understand us very early on, but she started signing back to us when she was about 12 months old…and to be able to understand what your child wants and needs that early on in life is really incredible. There were far fewer tantrums because we... read more

Decluttering Giveaway #3 — Baby girl clothes – 9 months size

Note: The winner of this giveaway has already been chosen. If you’d like to participate in future contests on NOH, please subscribe to one of the mailing lists on the right side of this page! With the first couple giveaway’s already behind us, I’m happy to note that Mackenzie’s room is looking less like a baby store every day…although we do already have tons of stuff for her... read more

Decluttering Giveaway #2: More Baby Clothes – 3-6 months

Note: The winner of this giveaway has already been chosen. If you’d like to participate in future contests on NOH, please subscribe to one of the mailing lists on the right side of this page! First of all, congratulations to Carrie M! She has scored the great package of newborn hand-me-downs and is hopefully going to make a new mommy (and daddy) very excited! Carrie, I’ll contact you in a bit... read more

Decluttering Giveaway #1: Newborn clothes

Note: The winner of this giveaway has already been chosen. If you’d like to participate in future contests on NOH, please subscribe to one of the mailing lists on the right side of this page! In case you missed my post earlier this week, I’m starting a series of decluttering giveaways. Mackenzie’s room is the first one under the microscope because I’m sick of looking at the... read more

The Kiddy Comfort Pro car seat – It saves lives

Something you may or may not know about me by now, is that when we buy things around here, we usually go on a massive researching mission first to make sure we end up with the best product at the best price. When Mack was about 12 months old and began to outgrow her baby car seat, we started scouring the internet for information about what was available. I really couldn’t imagine that there would be... read more

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